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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

newwa.org

New England Water Works Association, Inc. > Home

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newwa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newwa.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newwa.org

140 ms

default.aspx

441 ms

gtm.js

75 ms

fb77bbc0-68d4-0136-ef7d-06659b33d47c

55 ms

default.css

294 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Newwa.org, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (687 ms) belongs to the original domain Newwa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (25%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newwa.org main page is 7.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 6.9 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 50.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 49.1 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. New Wa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 643.0 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 1.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 526.7 kB

  • Original 619.1 kB
  • After minification 567.3 kB
  • After compression 92.4 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. Newwa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 526.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (42%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New Wa. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

newwa.org accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

newwa.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

newwa.org SEO score

85

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

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 Newwa.org 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 Newwa.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 description is not detected on the main page of New Wa. 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: