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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

ballardlocks.org

Hiram M. Chittenden-Ballard Locks

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

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Ballard Locks.org is the official site for Visitor Information and Public Support of the Ballard (Hiram M. Chittenden) Locks.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ballardlocks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 8.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ballardlocks.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ballardlocks.org

1143 ms

ballardlocks.org

3268 ms

site.css

62 ms

css

29 ms

libs.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Ballardlocks.org, 16% (5 requests) were made to Assets.neo.registeredsite.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ballardlocks.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ballardlocks.org main page is 1.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 88.7 kB

  • Original 97.1 kB
  • After minification 94.9 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. 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 88.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 131.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, Ballard Locks needs image optimization as it can save up to 131.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 144 B

  • Original 496.8 kB
  • After minification 496.8 kB
  • After compression 496.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 792 B

  • Original 66.4 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 65.6 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. Ballardlocks.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballard Locks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ballardlocks.org

ballardlocks.org

1143 ms

ballardlocks.org

ballardlocks.org

3268 ms

site.css

site.css

62 ms

css

css

29 ms

libs.css

libs.css

67 ms

neo.css

neo.css

59 ms

css

css

47 ms

libs.js

libs.js

98 ms

tinymce.min.js

tinymce.min.js

63 ms

neo.js

neo.js

63 ms

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198 ms

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409 ms

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1047 ms

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1272 ms

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2683 ms

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2912 ms

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3521 ms

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144 ms

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22 ms

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26 ms

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43 ms

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71 ms

Accessibility Review

ballardlocks.org accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

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

ballardlocks.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ballardlocks.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ballardlocks.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 Ballardlocks.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

ballardlocks.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ballard Locks. 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: