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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bistatedev.org

Bi-State Development - economic development in the St. Louis region

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

Visit bistatedev.org now to see the best up-to-date Bi State Dev content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bistatedev.org

Bi-State Development (BSD) is a dynamic and multi-faceted resource for economic development in the St. Louis region of both Missouri and Illinois.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bistatedev.org page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bistatedev.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bistatedev.org

72 ms

www.bistatedev.org

308 ms

gtm.js

54 ms

style.min.css

60 ms

styles.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Bistatedev.org, 15% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (422 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bistatedev.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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 947.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 145.8 kB

  • Original 184.6 kB
  • After minification 181.0 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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 145.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 947.5 kB
  • After minification 947.5 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. Bi State Dev images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 562.5 kB
  • After minification 562.4 kB
  • After compression 545.0 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 146.4 kB
  • After minification 146.0 kB
  • After compression 133.5 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. Bistatedev.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (74%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bi State Dev. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bistatedev.org

bistatedev.org

72 ms

www.bistatedev.org

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308 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

54 ms

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60 ms

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36 ms

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191 ms

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86 ms

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72 ms

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88 ms

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64 ms

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86 ms

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93 ms

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100 ms

css

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34 ms

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94 ms

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111 ms

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100 ms

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103 ms

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111 ms

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134 ms

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139 ms

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143 ms

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151 ms

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148 ms

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63 ms

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Accessibility Review

bistatedev.org accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

bistatedev.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bistatedev.org SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bistatedev.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 Bistatedev.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

bistatedev.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bi State Dev. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: