Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

arcreef.com

ARC Reef - Atlantic Reef Conservation - Marine Aquaculture Facility

Page Load Speed

966 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

674 ms

Page Rendered

236 ms

arcreef.com screenshot

About Website

Visit arcreef.com now to see the best up-to-date ARC Reef content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about arcreef.com

ARC Reef is a federally licensed aquaculture facility, marine research laboratory, and environmental conservation organization specializing in reef ecology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arcreef.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 910 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arcreef.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.876

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arcreef.com

56 ms

arcreef.com

164 ms

style.min.css

18 ms

jquery.selectBox.css

41 ms

font-awesome.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Arcreef.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (203 ms) belongs to the original domain Arcreef.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

888.2 kB

After Optimization

787.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Arcreef.com main page is 888.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 296.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 97.7 kB

  • Original 114.5 kB
  • After minification 94.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 20.4 kB, which is 18% 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 97.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 296.0 kB
  • After minification 296.0 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. ARC Reef images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 263.3 kB
  • After minification 263.3 kB
  • After compression 261.6 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 1.0 kB

  • Original 214.4 kB
  • After minification 214.4 kB
  • After compression 213.4 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. Arcreef.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (72%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ARC Reef. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

arcreef.com accessibility score

78

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

arcreef.com 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

arcreef.com SEO score

82

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 Arcreef.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 Arcreef.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

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