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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cityutilities.net

City Utilities | Official Website

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

cityutilities.net screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing City Utilities content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cityutilities.net

Since it's creation in 1945, City Utilities of Springfield has proudly served southwest Missouri with essential utilities and services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityutilities.net page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityutilities.net performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.844

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityutilities.net

87 ms

www.cityutilities.net

750 ms

font-awesome.css

391 ms

et-icons.css

381 ms

et-line.css

334 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Cityutilities.net, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cityutilities.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cityutilities.net main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 754.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 334.5 kB

  • Original 387.5 kB
  • After minification 383.3 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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. 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 334.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 542.6 kB
  • After minification 525.0 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. City Utilities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 382.6 kB

  • Original 754.4 kB
  • After minification 748.1 kB
  • After compression 371.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 382.6 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 277.8 kB

  • Original 329.4 kB
  • After minification 308.1 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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. Cityutilities.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 277.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (48%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Utilities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cityutilities.net

cityutilities.net

87 ms

www.cityutilities.net

www.cityutilities.net

750 ms

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font-awesome.css

391 ms

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381 ms

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334 ms

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428 ms

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373 ms

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374 ms

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34 ms

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565 ms

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732 ms

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604 ms

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745 ms

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680 ms

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809 ms

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882 ms

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889 ms

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946 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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46 ms

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82 ms

scripts.min.js

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1251 ms

scripts.js

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1039 ms

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1058 ms

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jquery.mobile.js

1131 ms

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1180 ms

jquery.metadata.min.js

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1189 ms

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1278 ms

api.js

api.js

50 ms

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common.js

1347 ms

ubermenu.min.js

ubermenu.min.js

1487 ms

fc.js

fc.js

1462 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

115 ms

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cityutilities-logo.png

498 ms

menu-ad-myaccount.png

menu-ad-myaccount.png

790 ms

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789 ms

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790 ms

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868 ms

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806 ms

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807 ms

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908 ms

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957 ms

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1067 ms

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1339 ms

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1494 ms

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1515 ms

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1601 ms

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1614 ms

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1638 ms

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1834 ms

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1787 ms

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1795 ms

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2021 ms

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18 ms

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42 ms

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1904 ms

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20 ms

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1944 ms

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1846 ms

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1838 ms

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24 ms

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1955 ms

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1777 ms

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1869 ms

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273 ms

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446 ms

Accessibility Review

cityutilities.net accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cityutilities.net best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cityutilities.net SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Cityutilities.net 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 Cityutilities.net 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

cityutilities.net

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