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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

downtowncs.com

Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs - Downtown Partnership

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

415 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Downtown Cs content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about downtowncs.com

The Downtown Partnership family of organizations ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs is the cultural, civic and economic heart of our city.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downtowncs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 5.1 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

downtowncs.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.26

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downtowncs.com

1558 ms

font-awesome.min.css

74 ms

js

104 ms

up_loader.1.1.0.js

72 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Downtowncs.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Downtowncs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 606.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Downtowncs.com main page is 5.0 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 220.5 kB

  • Original 254.7 kB
  • After minification 246.5 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. 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 220.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 359.9 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Downtown Cs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 202.8 kB
  • After minification 202.8 kB
  • After compression 178.9 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 23.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 160.6 kB
  • After minification 160.6 kB
  • After compression 158.2 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. Downtowncs.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (70%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downtown Cs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

downtowncs.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

downtowncs.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

downtowncs.com 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

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 Downtowncs.com 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 Downtowncs.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 Downtown Cs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: