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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

greatriversbyway.com

The Great River Road | Alton, Godfrey, Grafton, Elsah, IL | Great Rivers & Routes

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

238 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Great Rivers Byway content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about greatriversbyway.com

Drive along the Great River Road in Illinois and discover scenic wonders. Located between Alton and Grafton, IL, the Great River Road is filled with outdoor adventures.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatriversbyway.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatriversbyway.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatriversbyway.com

38 ms

415 ms

webfontloader.js

24 ms

widget.js

146 ms

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Greatriversbyway.com, 46% (27 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 22% (13 requests) were made to Riversandroutes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) relates to the external source Riversandroutes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatriversbyway.com main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 965.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 189.8 kB

  • Original 229.2 kB
  • After minification 197.6 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 31.6 kB, which is 14% 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 189.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 68.4 kB

  • Original 283.0 kB
  • After minification 214.6 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, Great Rivers Byway needs image optimization as it can save up to 68.4 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 965.0 kB
  • After minification 965.0 kB
  • After compression 924.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 63.1 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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. Greatriversbyway.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Rivers Byway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

greatriversbyway.com accessibility score

77

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

[role] values are not valid

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

greatriversbyway.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

greatriversbyway.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greatriversbyway.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 Greatriversbyway.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 Great Rivers Byway. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: