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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

rockfordobits.org

Rockford, IL Obituaries - Today's Obituaries & Funeral Notices

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

583 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

459 ms

About Website

Welcome to rockfordobits.org homepage info - get ready to check Rockford Obits best content right away, or after learning these important things about rockfordobits.org

RockfordObits.com is the online source for local Rockford and Winnebago County obituaries and death notices including links to local florists and funeral service providers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rockfordobits.org page load time and found that the first response time was 583 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

rockfordobits.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.267

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ww38.rockfordobits.org

583 ms

saledefault.css

14 ms

style.css

10 ms

zeropark.css

10 ms

sale_form.js

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Rockfordobits.org, 29% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 21% (3 requests) were made to D38psrni17bvxu.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (768 ms) relates to the external source Brigi-jar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

35.7 kB

After Optimization

20.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rockfordobits.org main page is 35.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 24.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 955 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. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 16.7 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, Rockford Obits needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 833 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 619 B
  • After compression 408 B

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 833 B or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Rockfordobits.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (54%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rockford Obits. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rockfordobits.org accessibility score

86

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

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

Best Practices

rockfordobits.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

SEO Factors

rockfordobits.org SEO score

92

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

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 Rockfordobits.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 Rockfordobits.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 Rockford Obits. 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: