Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

loudounlyme.org

FinishLyme – Charity Event for Lyme Disease

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

449 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

loudounlyme.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to loudounlyme.org homepage info - get ready to check Loudoun Lyme best content right away, or after learning these important things about loudounlyme.org

The Annual FinishLyme 5K will drive awareness and raise money to help find a cure for Lyme disease - the number one tick-borne illness in the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loudounlyme.org page load time and found that the first response time was 449 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loudounlyme.org performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

loudounlyme.org

449 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

185 ms

style.css

249 ms

style.min.css

363 ms

jquery.min.js

392 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Loudounlyme.org, 65% (22 requests) were made to Finishlyme.org and 9% (3 requests) were made to Assets.pinterest.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) belongs to the original domain Loudounlyme.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

568.6 kB

After Optimization

350.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Loudounlyme.org main page is 568.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 270.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 32.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 270.2 kB
  • After minification 267.1 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. Loudoun Lyme images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 142.1 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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 82.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 99.2 kB

  • Original 115.3 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Loudounlyme.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Loudoun Lyme. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

loudounlyme.org accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

loudounlyme.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

loudounlyme.org SEO score

64

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

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 Loudounlyme.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 Loudounlyme.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 Loudoun Lyme. 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: