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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

iowaswitch.org

Iowa Switch | Healthy Lifestyles for Today's Youth and Families

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

494 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

199 ms

iowaswitch.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to iowaswitch.org homepage info - get ready to check Iowa Switch best content right away, or after learning these important things about iowaswitch.org

SWITCH is a school wellness initiative motivating kids, families and educators across Iowa to switch up what they do, view and chew!

Visit iowaswitch.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Iowaswitch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 494 ms and then it took 1.7 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

iowaswitch.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.iowaswitch.org

494 ms

system.base.css

34 ms

system.messages.css

62 ms

system.theme.css

82 ms

field.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Iowaswitch.org, 11% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (494 ms) belongs to the original domain Iowaswitch.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

676.3 kB

After Optimization

646.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iowaswitch.org main page is 676.3 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. 80% 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 352.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 11.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 352.3 kB
  • After minification 349.1 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. Iowa Switch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 208.4 kB
  • After minification 206.6 kB
  • After compression 195.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 99.5 kB
  • After minification 99.5 kB
  • After compression 97.0 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. Iowaswitch.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (58%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iowa Switch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.iowaswitch.org

www.iowaswitch.org

494 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

34 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

62 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

82 ms

field.css

field.css

83 ms

node.css

node.css

83 ms

user.css

user.css

83 ms

wd-auth.css

wd-auth.css

83 ms

views.css

views.css

92 ms

ckeditor.css

ckeditor.css

111 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

112 ms

base.css

base.css

142 ms

tracker.css

tracker.css

111 ms

switch.css

switch.css

112 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

119 ms

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

139 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

139 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

140 ms

jquery_browser.js

jquery_browser.js

139 ms

spamspan.js

spamspan.js

164 ms

kwAOlISrM20

kwAOlISrM20

119 ms

switch-logo.svg

switch-logo.svg

33 ms

do-view-chew.svg

do-view-chew.svg

35 ms

SWITCH%20website%20icon%20blurbs_2020%20Revision-01_9.8.20.png

SWITCH%20website%20icon%20blurbs_2020%20Revision-01_9.8.20.png

82 ms

SWITCH%20website%20icon%20blurbs_2020%20Revision-02_9.8.20.png

SWITCH%20website%20icon%20blurbs_2020%20Revision-02_9.8.20.png

82 ms

SWITCH%20website%20icon%20blurbs_2020%20Revision-03_9.8.20.png

SWITCH%20website%20icon%20blurbs_2020%20Revision-03_9.8.20.png

58 ms

button%20v1.jpg

button%20v1.jpg

59 ms

button%20v2.jpg

button%20v2.jpg

88 ms

button%20v4.jpg

button%20v4.jpg

89 ms

button%20v6.jpg

button%20v6.jpg

90 ms

Facebook%20icon.png

Facebook%20icon.png

88 ms

Instagram%20icon.png

Instagram%20icon.png

143 ms

YouTube%20icon.png

YouTube%20icon.png

143 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

144 ms

footer-logo-4h-isueo.png

footer-logo-4h-isueo.png

144 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

11 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

6 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

26 ms

base.js

base.js

53 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

138 ms

Hg8RJ6IYDEt2XfeS9TTatHSj5NgA1bkUUg8jx44YVvw.js

Hg8RJ6IYDEt2XfeS9TTatHSj5NgA1bkUUg8jx44YVvw.js

116 ms

embed.js

embed.js

38 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

47 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

50 ms

id

id

24 ms

Accessibility Review

iowaswitch.org accessibility score

88

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

iowaswitch.org best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

iowaswitch.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iowaswitch.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 Iowaswitch.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

iowaswitch.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Iowa Switch. 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: