Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

nicholasville.org

Nicholasville.org | Welcome to the City of Nicholasville, Kentucky

Page Load Speed

412 ms in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

182 ms

Page Rendered

58 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Nicholasville content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nicholasville.org

Positioned in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region, on the outskirts of Lexington, Nicholasville is Kentucky's seventh fastest growing city.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nicholasville.org page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 240 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nicholasville.org performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.69

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nicholasville.org

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Nicholasville.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (172 ms) belongs to the original domain Nicholasville.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

503.3 kB

After Optimization

370.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Nicholasville.org main page is 503.3 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 385.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 10 B

  • Original 101 B
  • After minification 100 B
  • After compression 91 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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 385.3 kB
  • After minification 337.0 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, Nicholasville needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.3 kB or 13% 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 76.9 kB

  • Original 108.1 kB
  • After minification 102.1 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 76.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Nicholasville.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

nicholasville.org accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

nicholasville.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nicholasville.org SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Nicholasville.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 Nicholasville.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 Nicholasville. 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: