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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

visitiowa.org

Home - Northeast Iowa Tourism

Page Load Speed

21.2 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

20.6 sec

Page Rendered

564 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitiowa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 21.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visitiowa.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitiowa.org

42 ms

www.visitnortheastiowa.com

8028 ms

select2.min.css

16 ms

iconfonts.css

35 ms

frontend.min.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 161 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Visitiowa.org, 81% (131 requests) were made to Visitnortheastiowa.com and 10% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) relates to the external source Visitnortheastiowa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 585.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visitiowa.org main page is 6.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 252.0 kB

  • Original 294.0 kB
  • After minification 291.0 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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. 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 252.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.0 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. Visit Iowa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 215.1 kB

  • Original 755.5 kB
  • After minification 755.5 kB
  • After compression 540.4 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 215.1 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 118.5 kB

  • Original 406.7 kB
  • After minification 405.5 kB
  • After compression 288.2 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. Visitiowa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.5 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (77%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Iowa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 51 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

visitiowa.org accessibility score

91

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

visitiowa.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

SEO Factors

visitiowa.org SEO score

86

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Visitiowa.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Visitiowa.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 data is detected on the main page of Visit Iowa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: