Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

virginiaplaces.org

Geography of Virginia

Page Load Speed

667 ms in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

401 ms

Page Rendered

144 ms

virginiaplaces.org screenshot

About Website

Visit virginiaplaces.org now to see the best up-to-date Virginia Places content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about virginiaplaces.org

Geography of Virginia - an exploration of places in Virginia and what makes them unique/interesting

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginiaplaces.org page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 545 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virginiaplaces.org performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virginiaplaces.org

122 ms

style.css

47 ms

cloverhollow2.jpg

178 ms

johnsmith.png

183 ms

roadconstructionsm.jpg

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Virginiaplaces.org, 40% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (183 ms) belongs to the original domain Virginiaplaces.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

279.0 kB

After Optimization

249.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Virginiaplaces.org main page is 279.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 174.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 20.0 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. 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 15.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 174.5 kB
  • After minification 172.1 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. Virginia Places images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 178 B

  • Original 68.5 kB
  • After minification 68.5 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. Virginiaplaces.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (18%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virginia Places. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virginiaplaces.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

virginiaplaces.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

SEO Factors

virginiaplaces.org SEO score

93

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Virginiaplaces.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 Virginiaplaces.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Virginia Places. 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: