Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

waterfordvillage.org

The Village of Waterford, Virginia - A National Historic Landmark

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

waterfordvillage.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterfordvillage.org page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 3.5 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

waterfordvillage.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordvillage.org

54 ms

www.waterfordvillage.org

896 ms

analytics.js

79 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

154 ms

wgs2.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (111 requests) were addressed to the original Waterfordvillage.org, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) belongs to the original domain Waterfordvillage.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 183.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

7.2 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Waterfordvillage.org main page is 7.2 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. 85% 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 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 107.8 kB
  • After minification 106.1 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 93.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 6.9 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. Waterford Village images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 97.0 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 76.1 kB
  • After minification 75.8 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. Waterfordvillage.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (26%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterford Village. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waterfordvillage.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

waterfordvillage.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

waterfordvillage.org SEO score

97

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Waterfordvillage.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 Waterfordvillage.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 Waterford Village. 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: