Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

aapra.org

American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration > Home

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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Established in 1980, the Academy was formed to advance knowledge related to the administration of recreation and parks; encourage scholarly efforts by both practitioners and educators to enhance the p...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aapra.org page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aapra.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.252

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aapra.org

83 ms

aapra.org

198 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

default.css

74 ms

ie.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Aapra.org, 10% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) belongs to the original domain Aapra.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (54%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Aapra.org main page is 4.1 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. 75% 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. CSS take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 51.0 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 11.0 kB, which is 17% 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 51.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 80.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Aapra images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 850.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 420.1 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 850.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 174.5 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. Aapra.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (53%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aapra. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aapra.org accessibility score

95

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.

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

aapra.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aapra.org SEO score

92

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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