Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com

Virginia Herpetological Society

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

697 ms

Page Rendered

267 ms

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About Website

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A Virginia natural history society focusing on the native reptiles and amphibians of Virginia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 964 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

virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com

138 ms

style.css

59 ms

jquery.js

142 ms

megamenu.css

116 ms

boilerplate.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) belongs to the original domain Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 336.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com main page is 2.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 6.2 kB, which is 29% 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 17.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Virginia Herpetological Society images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 185.4 kB

  • Original 279.1 kB
  • After minification 269.5 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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 185.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 85.9 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (29%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virginia Herpetological Society. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.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 Virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com 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 Virginia Herpetological Society. 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: