Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

historicstcharles.com

Discover St. Charles | Events, Historic Downtown & Shopping

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

693 ms

historicstcharles.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to historicstcharles.com homepage info - get ready to check Historic St Charles best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about historicstcharles.com

The town of Saint Charles, MO welcomes visitors with a historic downtown, shopping, great restaurants, year-round events, and family-friendly things to do.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Historicstcharles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

historicstcharles.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.964

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

historicstcharles.com

286 ms

www.historicstcharles.com

319 ms

combine.cfm

99 ms

jquery.min.js

48 ms

combine.cfm

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Historicstcharles.com, 4% (5 requests) were made to Px.owneriq.net and 4% (5 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (366 ms) relates to the external source Historicstcharles.widgets.bookdirect.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Historicstcharles.com main page is 2.7 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. 75% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 79.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.6 kB, which is 11% 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 72.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Historic St Charles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 311.2 kB

  • Original 476.9 kB
  • After minification 388.7 kB
  • After compression 165.7 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 311.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 69.1 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Historicstcharles.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (46%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Historic St Charles. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

historicstcharles.com accessibility score

86

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

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

historicstcharles.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

historicstcharles.com SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Historicstcharles.com 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 Historicstcharles.com 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 Historic St Charles. 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: