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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

albany.org

Albany, New York | Hotels, Events, Festivals, and Things To Do

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

896 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Albany content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about albany.org

Welcome to Albany, NY, the Capital of New York State. This 400-year city on the banks of the Hudson River is full of fun things to do, year-round events and festivals, and a thriving food and craft be...

Visit albany.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Albany.org page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 2.6 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

albany.org performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.789

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

albany.org

70 ms

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123 ms

shared.css

34 ms

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40 ms

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52 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Albany.org, 30% (40 requests) were made to Assets.simpleviewinc.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Assets.simpleviewinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Albany.org main page is 2.5 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. HTML takes 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 350.7 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 1.1 MB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Albany images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 23.6 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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. Albany.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (56%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Albany. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

albany.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

albany.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

albany.org SEO score

100

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

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 Albany.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 Albany.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

albany.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Albany. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: