Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org

Bicycle Friendly Community - A Program of the League of American Bicyclists Saftey

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

920 ms

Page Rendered

234 ms

About Website

Visit bicyclefriendlycommunity.org now to see the best up-to-date Bicycle Friendly Community content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bicyclefriendlycommunity.org

The Bicycle Friendly Communities Campaign is an awards program which recognizes municipalities that actively support bicycling.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bicyclefriendlycommunity.org page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org

140 ms

community

137 ms

system.base.css

24 ms

system.menus.css

46 ms

system.messages.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bicyclefriendlycommunity.org, 94% (89 requests) were made to Bikeleague.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (320 ms) relates to the external source Bikeleague.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Bicyclefriendlycommunity.org main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 137 B

  • Original 415 B
  • After minification 396 B
  • After compression 278 B

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 137 B or 33% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 497.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 853.5 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. Obviously, Bicycle Friendly Community needs image optimization as it can save up to 497.0 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 520.9 kB

  • Original 732.7 kB
  • After minification 597.9 kB
  • After compression 211.8 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 520.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 149.2 kB

  • Original 177.8 kB
  • After minification 136.9 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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. Bicyclefriendlycommunity.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (60%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bicycle Friendly Community. 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 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org SEO score

62

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bicyclefriendlycommunity.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 Bicyclefriendlycommunity.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bicycle Friendly Community. 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: