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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

edcscc.com

Economic Development Council (EDC) of St. Charles County

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

421 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edcscc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 9.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

edcscc.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value58.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

edcscc.com

49 ms

www.edcscc.com

323 ms

gtm.js

247 ms

css

64 ms

all.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Edcscc.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) relates to the external source Widgets.sociablekit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (9%)

Content Size

11.0 MB

After Optimization

10.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Edcscc.com main page is 11.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 38.7 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 7.9 kB, which is 17% 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 37.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 979.0 kB

  • Original 10.7 MB
  • After minification 9.8 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. EDC Scc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 226.0 kB
  • After minification 220.7 kB
  • After compression 202.8 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.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Edcscc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (54%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EDC Scc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

edcscc.com accessibility score

62

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

edcscc.com SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Edcscc.com 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 Edcscc.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 EDC Scc. 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: