Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

region8water.colostate.edu

NIFA Northern Plains and Mountains Water Quality Program

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

395 ms

Resources Loaded

862 ms

Page Rendered

228 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Region8water.colostate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 395 ms and then it took 1.1 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

region8water.colostate.edu performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

region8water.colostate.edu

395 ms

NP.css

178 ms

jquery.min.js

6 ms

jquery.easyAccordion.js

139 ms

utility.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Region8water.colostate.edu, 28% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (395 ms) belongs to the original domain Region8water.colostate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

421.6 kB

After Optimization

367.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Region8water.colostate.edu main page is 421.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 352.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 16.3 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 13.7 kB, which is 46% 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 25.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 352.2 kB
  • After minification 341.8 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. Region8 Water Colostate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 6.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Region8water.colostate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (34%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Region8 Water Colostate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

region8water.colostate.edu accessibility score

46

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

region8water.colostate.edu best practices score

50

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

region8water.colostate.edu 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

    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 Region8water.colostate.edu 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 Region8water.colostate.edu 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 Region8 Water Colostate. 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: