Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

link.dallaslibrary.org

Dallas Public Library - The Library.Link Network

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

773 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Link.dallaslibrary.org page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

link.dallaslibrary.org performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

link.dallaslibrary.org

160 ms

readable.min.css

81 ms

style.css

93 ms

font-awesome.css

89 ms

jquery.min.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Link.dallaslibrary.org, 33% (7 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Dallaslibrary2.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (364 ms) relates to the external source Dallaslibrary2.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.4 kB (66%)

Content Size

779.5 kB

After Optimization

268.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Link.dallaslibrary.org main page is 779.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 462.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 105.0 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.9 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 96.7 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 45.9 kB
  • After minification 45.8 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. Link Dallas Library images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 276.0 kB

  • Original 462.0 kB
  • After minification 462.0 kB
  • After compression 186.0 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 276.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 138.7 kB

  • Original 166.6 kB
  • After minification 155.7 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. Link.dallaslibrary.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 138.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (71%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Link Dallas Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

link.dallaslibrary.org accessibility score

93

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

link.dallaslibrary.org best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

link.dallaslibrary.org SEO score

84

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

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 Link.dallaslibrary.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 Link.dallaslibrary.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Link Dallas Library. 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: