Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ctchristmastree.org

Connecticut Christmas Tree Growers Association – Encouraging the development of the Christmas tree industry in the state of Connecticut.

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

867 ms

Page Rendered

145 ms

ctchristmastree.org screenshot

About Website

Visit ctchristmastree.org now to see the best up-to-date Ct Christmas Tree content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ctchristmastree.org

Home Page for the Connecticut Christmas Tree Growers Association (CCTGA) who's purpose is to educate the public and its member about quality Christmas Trees.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctchristmastree.org page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctchristmastree.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.427

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctchristmastree.org

196 ms

ctchristmastree.org

266 ms

master.css

51 ms

menu.js

101 ms

Left_corner.gif

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ctchristmastree.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) belongs to the original domain Ctchristmastree.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

276.3 kB

After Optimization

180.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ctchristmastree.org main page is 276.3 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 159.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 18% 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 40.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 159.3 kB
  • After minification 154.8 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. Ct Christmas Tree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 51.1 kB

  • Original 71.3 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 51.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 762 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 970 B
  • After compression 329 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. Ctchristmastree.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 762 B or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ct Christmas Tree. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

ctchristmastree.org accessibility score

95

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.

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

ctchristmastree.org 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

ctchristmastree.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ctchristmastree.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 Ctchristmastree.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Ct Christmas Tree. 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: