Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

worldbank.org

World Bank Group - International Development, Poverty, & Sustainability

Page Load Speed

75.7 sec in total

First Response

760 ms

Resources Loaded

51.7 sec

Page Rendered

23.3 sec

worldbank.org screenshot

About Website

Visit worldbank.org now to see the best up-to-date World Bank content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about worldbank.org

With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Worldbank.org page load time and found that the first response time was 760 ms and then it took 74.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

worldbank.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.worldbank.org

760 ms

clientlibs-wbrredsign.min.css

689 ms

loop-icon.css

1244 ms

css

1268 ms

jquery.min.js

1259 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Worldbank.org, 20% (20 requests) were made to Datawrapper.dwcdn.net and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.3 sec) relates to the external source Datawrapper.dwcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (40%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Worldbank.org main page is 8.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 168.2 kB

  • Original 191.3 kB
  • After minification 137.5 kB
  • After compression 23.2 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 53.9 kB, which is 28% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 168.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 116.2 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. World Bank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.4 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.4 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 617.9 kB

  • Original 738.6 kB
  • After minification 723.1 kB
  • After compression 120.7 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Worldbank.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 617.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (49%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of World Bank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

worldbank.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

worldbank.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

worldbank.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Worldbank.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Worldbank.org main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of World Bank. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: