Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

denverboyscouts.org

Greater Colorado Council, Boy Scouts of America

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

114 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

denverboyscouts.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Denver Boy Scouts content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about denverboyscouts.org

The Greater Colorado Council (GCC), Boy Scouts of America, was established in 1916 and settled into its current location in Lakewood, Colorado, in 2009. Through the years the mission has remained the ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Denverboyscouts.org page load time and found that the first response time was 114 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

denverboyscouts.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

denverboyscouts.org

114 ms

www.denverboyscouts.org

286 ms

dkjquery.ui.all.css

73 ms

style_dktopstyles.css

71 ms

doubleknot_style4-28-2015-10-34-9-0.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Denverboyscouts.org, 53% (55 requests) were made to C001af38d1d46a976912-b99970780ce78ebdd694d83e551ef810.r48.cf1.rackcdn.com and 13% (13 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) relates to the external source C001af38d1d46a976912-b99970780ce78ebdd694d83e551ef810.r48.cf1.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Denverboyscouts.org main page is 2.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 79.2 kB
  • After minification 77.5 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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 62.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 522.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 685.1 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. Obviously, Denver Boy Scouts needs image optimization as it can save up to 522.3 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 286.6 kB

  • Original 584.5 kB
  • After minification 528.2 kB
  • After compression 298.0 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 286.6 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 325.9 kB

  • Original 395.2 kB
  • After minification 354.3 kB
  • After compression 69.3 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. Denverboyscouts.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 325.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (59%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Denver Boy Scouts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

denverboyscouts.org accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

denverboyscouts.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

denverboyscouts.org SEO score

82

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Denverboyscouts.org 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 Denverboyscouts.org 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 Denver Boy Scouts. 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: