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maps.nps.gov

NPS Maps

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

335 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Maps NPS content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about maps.nps.gov

The NPMap team designs and builds engaging web maps for the U.S. National Park Service and its partners using a variety of technologies and a set of custom tools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maps.nps.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maps.nps.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

maps.nps.gov

126 ms

npmap

104 ms

441 ms

nps-bootstrap.min.css

91 ms

font-awesome.min.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Maps.nps.gov, 81% (25 requests) were made to Nps.gov and 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Nps.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 245.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Maps.nps.gov main page is 1.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 962.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.1 kB, which is 19% 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 25.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 962.5 kB
  • After minification 935.4 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. Maps NPS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 90.8 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 60.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 132.3 kB

  • Original 161.5 kB
  • After minification 160.7 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. Maps.nps.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 132.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (56%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maps NPS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

maps.nps.gov

maps.nps.gov

126 ms

npmap

npmap

104 ms

441 ms

nps-bootstrap.min.css

nps-bootstrap.min.css

91 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

44 ms

base.min.css

base.min.css

65 ms

landing.css

landing.css

90 ms

grca-1920x482.jpg

grca-1920x482.jpg

1030 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

85 ms

nps-bootstrap.min.js

nps-bootstrap.min.js

57 ms

global-redesign.js

global-redesign.js

84 ms

gallery@2x.jpg

gallery@2x.jpg

269 ms

tools@2x.png

tools@2x.png

441 ms

main-logo@2x.png

main-logo@2x.png

59 ms

parks.jpg

parks.jpg

76 ms

bap-border.png

bap-border.png

59 ms

text-sizes.png

text-sizes.png

74 ms

print.png

print.png

76 ms

share-tools.png

share-tools.png

98 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

120 ms

breadcrumb-home.png

breadcrumb-home.png

94 ms

breadcrumb.png

breadcrumb.png

123 ms

sm-control.png

sm-control.png

357 ms

sitemap-container.jpg

sitemap-container.jpg

151 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

152 ms

text-logo.png

text-logo.png

180 ms

slogan.png

slogan.png

181 ms

social_v2.png

social_v2.png

209 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

31 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

17 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

SEO Factors

maps.nps.gov SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Maps.nps.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Maps.nps.gov 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

maps.nps.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Maps NPS. 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: