Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

walnutcreekwatershed.org

Walnut Creek Watershed|Walnut Creek Watershed

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

427 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

walnutcreekwatershed.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to walnutcreekwatershed.org homepage info - get ready to check Walnut Creek Watershed best content right away, or after learning these important things about walnutcreekwatershed.org

Walnut Creek Watershed located in Polk/Dallas County Iowa. Conservation efforts currently underway to improve water and soil quality throughout the watershed.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Walnutcreekwatershed.org page load time and found that the first response time was 427 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

walnutcreekwatershed.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,320 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.walnutcreekwatershed.org

427 ms

analytics.js

31 ms

css

158 ms

js

136 ms

in.js

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Walnutcreekwatershed.org, 17% (7 requests) were made to Watershed-wc.frb.io and 10% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (625 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 365.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

7.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Walnutcreekwatershed.org main page is 8.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 94.9 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.3 kB, which is 27% 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 80.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Walnut Creek Watershed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 127.1 kB

  • Original 218.5 kB
  • After minification 206.6 kB
  • After compression 91.4 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 127.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 146.9 kB

  • Original 177.6 kB
  • After minification 155.7 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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. Walnutcreekwatershed.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 146.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (49%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Walnut Creek Watershed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

walnutcreekwatershed.org accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

walnutcreekwatershed.org 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

walnutcreekwatershed.org SEO score

85

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Walnutcreekwatershed.org 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 Walnutcreekwatershed.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 data is detected on the main page of Walnut Creek Watershed. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: