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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

pitcherplant.org

Meadowview Biological Research Station | Preserving and Restoring Pitcher Plant Bogs

Page Load Speed

771 ms in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

537 ms

Page Rendered

186 ms

About Website

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Meadowview is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and restoring rare wetland plants, habitats and associated ecosystems on the coastal plain of Maryland and Virginia. Our parti...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pitcherplant.org page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 723 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pitcherplant.org performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pitcherplant.org

48 ms

pitcherplant.org

83 ms

MeadowviewStyleSheet.css

63 ms

MeadowviewStyleSheet-main.css

66 ms

jsapi

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Pitcherplant.org, 10% (4 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Michaelkevinsmith.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (297 ms) belongs to the original domain Pitcherplant.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

877.7 kB

After Optimization

784.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pitcherplant.org main page is 877.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 770.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 10.6 kB, which is 22% 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 37.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 770.8 kB
  • After minification 715.5 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. Pitcher Plant images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 453 B

  • Original 55.6 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 800 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Pitcherplant.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 800 B or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pitcher Plant. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pitcherplant.org accessibility score

64

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

pitcherplant.org best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

pitcherplant.org SEO score

58

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pitcherplant.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 Pitcherplant.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 Pitcher Plant. 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: