Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

assateagueisland.com

Assateague Island National Seashore Visitor Services

Page Load Speed

859 ms in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

488 ms

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Assateagueisland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 797 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

assateagueisland.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

assateagueisland.com

62 ms

assateagueisland.com

184 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.cycle.all.latest.js

16 ms

assateague_island_sign.gif

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Assateagueisland.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (184 ms) belongs to the original domain Assateagueisland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

373.6 kB

After Optimization

341.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Assateagueisland.com main page is 373.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 310.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 4.1 kB, which is 11% 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 30.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 310.9 kB
  • After minification 309.6 kB

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. Assateague Island images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 146 B

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 24.6 kB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Assateague Island. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

assateagueisland.com accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

assateagueisland.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

assateagueisland.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Assateagueisland.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Assateagueisland.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Assateague Island. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: