Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

riverbanks.org

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden :: Columbia, South Carolina

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

riverbanks.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to riverbanks.org homepage info - get ready to check Riverbanks best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about riverbanks.org

One of America's best zoos, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is home to more than 2,000 animals and one of the nation's most inspiring botanical gardens.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Riverbanks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

riverbanks.org performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.143

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

riverbanks.org

84 ms

www.riverbanks.org

145 ms

gtm.js

78 ms

vop6hpe.css

104 ms

all.js

635 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Riverbanks.org, 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Live.rezync.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (717 ms) belongs to the original domain Riverbanks.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Riverbanks.org main page is 5.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 29.6 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 4.4 kB, which is 15% 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 22.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 359.4 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.2 MB

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. Riverbanks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 977 B

  • Original 643.0 kB
  • After minification 643.0 kB
  • After compression 642.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (51%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Riverbanks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

riverbanks.org accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

riverbanks.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

riverbanks.org SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Riverbanks.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 Riverbanks.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 Riverbanks. 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: