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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

citysoil.org

City Soil - Urban agriculture is rooted in City Soil

Page Load Speed

603 ms in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

294 ms

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

Visit citysoil.org now to see the best up-to-date City Soil content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about citysoil.org

City Soil cultivates and sustains agricultural projects and provides soil, compost, mulches and our specialized 'grow-how' to greater Boston.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citysoil.org page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 522 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citysoil.org performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citysoil.org

81 ms

citysoil.css

13 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

fadeslideshow.js

25 ms

ga.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Citysoil.org, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (164 ms) belongs to the original domain Citysoil.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.4 kB (1%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citysoil.org main page is 2.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. City Soil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 51.9 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 861 B

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. Citysoil.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

citysoil.org

citysoil.org

81 ms

citysoil.css

citysoil.css

13 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

7 ms

fadeslideshow.js

fadeslideshow.js

25 ms

ga.js

ga.js

23 ms

home-page-10.jpg

home-page-10.jpg

60 ms

home-page-4.jpg

home-page-4.jpg

77 ms

home-page-2.jpg

home-page-2.jpg

100 ms

home-page-6.jpg

home-page-6.jpg

86 ms

home-page-3.jpg

home-page-3.jpg

104 ms

home-page-1.jpg

home-page-1.jpg

116 ms

home-page-5.jpg

home-page-5.jpg

94 ms

home-page-9.jpg

home-page-9.jpg

118 ms

home-page-7.jpg

home-page-7.jpg

137 ms

home-page-8.jpg

home-page-8.jpg

144 ms

csbg1.jpg

csbg1.jpg

132 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

125 ms

citysoil.css

citysoil.css

131 ms

line.gif

line.gif

146 ms

line-green.gif

line-green.gif

142 ms

hands9.jpg

hands9.jpg

164 ms

FacebookLogo.gif

FacebookLogo.gif

158 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

152 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

citysoil.org accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

citysoil.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

citysoil.org SEO score

50

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citysoil.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Citysoil.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

citysoil.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of City Soil. 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: