Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

natureathand.com

Nature at Hand - nature education for Southern California

Page Load Speed

528 ms in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

93 ms

Page Rendered

409 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Natureathand.com page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 502 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

natureathand.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

natureathand.com

26 ms

NAHWebSite.css

12 ms

NAHFormatPage.js

22 ms

NAHLogo.gif

15 ms

Spacer.gif

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Natureathand.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (26 ms) belongs to the original domain Natureathand.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

307.9 kB

After Optimization

272.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Natureathand.com main page is 307.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 267.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 8.9 kB, which is 27% 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 28.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 267.4 kB
  • After minification 261.0 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. Nature At Hand images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 992 B

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 992 B or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 366 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Natureathand.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 366 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nature At Hand. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

natureathand.com accessibility score

61

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

natureathand.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

natureathand.com SEO score

62

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Natureathand.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 Natureathand.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nature At Hand. 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: