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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

onthecolorado.com

On The Colorado - Home Page

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

572 ms

Page Rendered

140 ms

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About Website

Welcome to onthecolorado.com homepage info - get ready to check On The Colorado best content right away, or after learning these important things about onthecolorado.com

On the Colorado explores issues surrounding the management and future of the Colorado River.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Onthecolorado.com page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 712 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

onthecolorado.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

onthecolorado.com

320 ms

cfform.js

175 ms

masks.js

119 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

178 ms

coloradostyles.css

121 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 Onthecolorado.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (320 ms) belongs to the original domain Onthecolorado.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.8 kB (77%)

Content Size

43.7 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Onthecolorado.com main page is 43.7 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 23.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 11.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 18.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 770 B

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. Onthecolorado.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (63%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of On The Colorado. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

onthecolorado.com

onthecolorado.com

320 ms

cfform.js

cfform.js

175 ms

masks.js

masks.js

119 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

178 ms

coloradostyles.css

coloradostyles.css

121 ms

headerbackground.gif

headerbackground.gif

60 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

100 ms

header.gif

header.gif

99 ms

1px_red.gif

1px_red.gif

99 ms

navbackground.gif

navbackground.gif

98 ms

navline.gif

navline.gif

118 ms

dashedline2.gif

dashedline2.gif

133 ms

dashedline_vert.gif

dashedline_vert.gif

135 ms

1px_grey.gif

1px_grey.gif

134 ms

fulldashedline.gif

fulldashedline.gif

135 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

134 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

175 ms

Accessibility Review

onthecolorado.com accessibility score

50

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

onthecolorado.com 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

SEO Factors

onthecolorado.com SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

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 Onthecolorado.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 Onthecolorado.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

onthecolorado.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of On The Colorado. 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: