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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

stcharlesmn.org

City of St. Charles Minnesota - Gateway to the Whitewater Valley

Page Load Speed

424 ms in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

226 ms

Page Rendered

183 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stcharlesmn.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 409 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

stcharlesmn.org performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stcharlesmn.org

15 ms

www.stcharlesmn.org

20 ms

styles-main.css

6 ms

header.js

8 ms

flagJS.asp

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Stcharlesmn.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Aflag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (135 ms) relates to the external source Aflag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

657.7 kB

After Optimization

586.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stcharlesmn.org main page is 657.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 569.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 2.9 kB, which is 11% 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 19.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 569.3 kB
  • After minification 550.7 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. St Charles Mn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 45.5 kB
  • After minification 45.3 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 18.5 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Stcharlesmn.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (24%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Charles Mn. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stcharlesmn.org

stcharlesmn.org

15 ms

www.stcharlesmn.org

www.stcharlesmn.org

20 ms

styles-main.css

styles-main.css

6 ms

header.js

header.js

8 ms

flagJS.asp

flagJS.asp

135 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

60 ms

main.js

main.js

24 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

13 ms

main-bg-repeat.gif

main-bg-repeat.gif

7 ms

mobile-header.png

mobile-header.png

46 ms

arrow-sprite.png

arrow-sprite.png

8 ms

main-content-bg-top.png

main-content-bg-top.png

40 ms

main-content-bg-repeat.png

main-content-bg-repeat.png

36 ms

2016RecyclingCalendar.jpg

2016RecyclingCalendar.jpg

36 ms

side-column-callout-bg-repeat.png

side-column-callout-bg-repeat.png

37 ms

side-column-callout-bg-top.png

side-column-callout-bg-top.png

37 ms

calendar-icon.png

calendar-icon.png

37 ms

side-column-callout-bg-bottom.png

side-column-callout-bg-bottom.png

37 ms

social-mediaBG.png

social-mediaBG.png

37 ms

facebook-link.png

facebook-link.png

38 ms

twitter-link.png

twitter-link.png

39 ms

YouTube-link.png

YouTube-link.png

39 ms

Online-Billpay-btn.png

Online-Billpay-btn.png

40 ms

public-transit.png

public-transit.png

40 ms

parks-rec.png

parks-rec.png

40 ms

Code-Red2-btn.png

Code-Red2-btn.png

39 ms

The-Suggestion-Box-btn.png

The-Suggestion-Box-btn.png

39 ms

city-hall.jpg

city-hall.jpg

41 ms

Farmers-Market2-btn.png

Farmers-Market2-btn.png

40 ms

St-Charles-Newsletter-btn.png

St-Charles-Newsletter-btn.png

40 ms

BTYR-Winona-Region-btn.png

BTYR-Winona-Region-btn.png

41 ms

Innovation-Park2-btn.png

Innovation-Park2-btn.png

41 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

main-content-bg-bottom.jpg

main-content-bg-bottom.jpg

57 ms

Accessibility Review

stcharlesmn.org accessibility score

92

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

stcharlesmn.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

stcharlesmn.org SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stcharlesmn.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 Stcharlesmn.org 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

stcharlesmn.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of St Charles Mn. 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: