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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

waterscenter.com

The Waters Center- Historic Downtown Residential & Office Space

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

314 ms

About Website

Visit waterscenter.com now to see the best up-to-date Waters Center content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about waterscenter.com

The Waters Center is a six-story building in the center of downtown Grand Rapids that boasts a rich history, an icon of the West Michigan area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterscenter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 2.6 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

waterscenter.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterscenter.com

168 ms

waterscenter.com

1567 ms

testimonials.css

13 ms

dashicons.min.css

16 ms

style.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Waterscenter.com, 45% (40 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterscenter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 626.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterscenter.com main page is 3.6 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 175.9 kB

  • Original 209.2 kB
  • After minification 207.4 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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 175.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 395.6 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Obviously, Waters Center needs image optimization as it can save up to 395.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 534.1 kB
  • After minification 534.1 kB
  • After compression 487.9 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 75.1 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. Waterscenter.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (67%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waters Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

waterscenter.com accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

waterscenter.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

waterscenter.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Waterscenter.com 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 Waterscenter.com 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 Waters Center. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: