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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

emeraldcities.org

Emerald Cities Collaborative Official Website | Emeraldcities.org

Page Load Speed

47 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

22.7 sec

Page Rendered

23.9 sec

emeraldcities.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to emeraldcities.org homepage info - get ready to check Emerald Cities best content right away, or after learning these important things about emeraldcities.org

The Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) pursues a high-road approach to greening our cities, building resilient regional economies

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emeraldcities.org page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 46.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

emeraldcities.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

emeraldcities.org

340 ms

emeraldcities.org

555 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

39 ms

style.min.css

283 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

378 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Emeraldcities.org, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source .

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (10%)

Content Size

20.6 MB

After Optimization

18.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emeraldcities.org main page is 20.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 20.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 135.7 kB

  • Original 160.3 kB
  • After minification 153.3 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 135.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 20.1 MB
  • After minification 18.1 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. Emerald Cities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 326 B

  • Original 128.5 kB
  • After minification 128.5 kB
  • After compression 128.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 498 B

  • Original 245.7 kB
  • After minification 245.7 kB
  • After compression 245.2 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. Emeraldcities.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (66%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Emerald Cities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

emeraldcities.org

emeraldcities.org

340 ms

emeraldcities.org

emeraldcities.org

555 ms

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39 ms

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378 ms

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1016 ms

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17 ms

Accessibility Review

emeraldcities.org accessibility score

96

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

emeraldcities.org best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

emeraldcities.org SEO score

83

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

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 Emeraldcities.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 Emeraldcities.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

emeraldcities.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Emerald Cities. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: