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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

metropets.org

MetroPets Online, Washington DC Metropolitan Area's Comprehensive Pet Site

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

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MetroPets Online promotes the adoption of homeless animals and the well-being of all animals in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area through its technological support of local animal shelters and re...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metropets.org page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metropets.org performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metropets.org

74 ms

mp-styles.css

38 ms

modpet.cgi

7 ms

logo.GIF

35 ms

naturalcat.gif

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Metropets.org, 17% (4 requests) were made to Groups.yahoo.com and 17% (4 requests) were made to Yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (654 ms) relates to the external source Fpm.petfinder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

37.7 kB

After Optimization

10.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metropets.org main page is 37.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 31.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 11.6 kB, which is 37% 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 25.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 48 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Metro Pets images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 288 B

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. Metropets.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metro Pets. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

metropets.org

metropets.org

74 ms

mp-styles.css

mp-styles.css

38 ms

modpet.cgi

modpet.cgi

7 ms

logo.GIF

logo.GIF

35 ms

naturalcat.gif

naturalcat.gif

36 ms

calendar_top.gif

calendar_top.gif

35 ms

calendar_bot.gif

calendar_bot.gif

35 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

33 ms

petsearch_P.gif

petsearch_P.gif

48 ms

modpet.cgi

modpet.cgi

654 ms

join.gif

join.gif

42 ms

join.gif

join.gif

8 ms

bglogo.GIF

bglogo.GIF

20 ms

Beckwith.jpg

Beckwith.jpg

20 ms

vol_corner2c.gif

vol_corner2c.gif

19 ms

yahoogroups.gif

yahoogroups.gif

19 ms

www.yahoo.com

www.yahoo.com

551 ms

join.gif

join.gif

3 ms

www.yahoo.com

www.yahoo.com

414 ms

join.gif

join.gif

5 ms

join.gif

join.gif

5 ms

join.gif

join.gif

5 ms

www.yahoo.com

www.yahoo.com

246 ms

www.yahoo.com

www.yahoo.com

392 ms

Accessibility Review

metropets.org accessibility score

55

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metropets.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

metropets.org SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

metropets.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Metro Pets. 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: