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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ballstonva.org

Home - www.ballstonva.org - Ballston, Virginia: Life is Full

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

838 ms

About Website

Welcome to ballstonva.org homepage info - get ready to check Ballston Va best content right away, or after learning these important things about ballstonva.org

Ballston, Virginia is a vibrant urban community in Arlington, and a technology, education, and nightlife hub near Washington D.C.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ballstonva.org page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ballstonva.org performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ballstonva.org

187 ms

fonts.css

81 ms

formidableforms.css

77 ms

style.css

95 ms

dflip.min.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Ballstonva.org, 16% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (778 ms) belongs to the original domain Ballstonva.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (11%)

Content Size

10.5 MB

After Optimization

9.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ballstonva.org main page is 10.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 51.2 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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 6.4 kB, which is 11% 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 42.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 529.8 kB

  • Original 9.4 MB
  • After minification 8.9 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. Ballston Va images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 573.6 kB

  • Original 888.2 kB
  • After minification 888.0 kB
  • After compression 314.7 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 573.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 108.9 kB
  • After minification 108.9 kB
  • After compression 106.8 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. Ballstonva.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (42%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballston Va. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ballstonva.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ballstonva.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ballstonva.org SEO score

93

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ballstonva.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 Ballstonva.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 data is detected on the main page of Ballston Va. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: