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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ecocycle.org

Eco-Cycle - Advancing Zero Waste Solutions

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Eco Cycle content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ecocycle.org

We offer services, programs, and free resources to help businesses, schools, event planners, and local governments go for Zero Waste.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecocycle.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Ecocycle.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

ecocycle.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.561

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecocycle.org

2209 ms

typography.php

286 ms

frontend_old.css

328 ms

mootools-core.js

408 ms

core.js

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Ecocycle.org, 11% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 11% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecocycle.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.9 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecocycle.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 73.0 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. 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 56.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 98.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Eco Cycle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 361.9 kB

  • Original 553.8 kB
  • After minification 552.1 kB
  • After compression 191.9 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 361.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 302.3 kB

  • Original 363.0 kB
  • After minification 345.0 kB
  • After compression 60.7 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. Ecocycle.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 302.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (47%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eco Cycle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ecocycle.org

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2209 ms

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286 ms

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328 ms

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202 ms

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181 ms

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264 ms

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75 ms

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206 ms

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208 ms

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367 ms

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262 ms

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278 ms

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276 ms

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678 ms

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56 ms

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Accessibility Review

ecocycle.org accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

ecocycle.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

ecocycle.org SEO score

83

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

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

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 Ecocycle.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 Ecocycle.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

ecocycle.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Eco Cycle. 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: