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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

aboutboulder.com

About Boulder, CO | Visit, Live, Work, Play | Things to Do, Jobs, Real Estate, Weather, Restaurants, Shopping

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

902 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

460 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aboutboulder.com page load time and found that the first response time was 902 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aboutboulder.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value43.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value59,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.292

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value90.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aboutboulder.com

902 ms

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91 ms

css

158 ms

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187 ms

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232 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Aboutboulder.com, 9% (15 requests) were made to 3835.smushcdn.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Aboutboulder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 698.8 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aboutboulder.com main page is 3.8 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 273.5 kB

  • Original 313.8 kB
  • After minification 309.3 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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. 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 273.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. About Boulder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 256.6 kB
  • After compression 214.1 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 43.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 354.5 kB

  • Original 495.7 kB
  • After minification 493.9 kB
  • After compression 141.1 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. Aboutboulder.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 354.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (36%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

99

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of About Boulder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

aboutboulder.com accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

aboutboulder.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Aboutboulder.com 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 Aboutboulder.com 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

aboutboulder.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of About Boulder. 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: