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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

carterlake.org

Carter Lake, Iowa Weather

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

871 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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About Website

Welcome to carterlake.org homepage info - get ready to check Carter Lake best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about carterlake.org

Live, local weather for Carter Lake, Iowa, and the Omaha valley. Includes live webcam, radar, forecasts, lightning detector, and NOAA weather radio.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carterlake.org page load time and found that the first response time was 871 ms and then it took 1.6 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

carterlake.org performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carterlake.org

871 ms

ajaxpower.js

59 ms

cl-screen.css

109 ms

oax.png

77 ms

cl-newlogo02.gif

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Carterlake.org, 6% (1 request) were made to Weather.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (871 ms) belongs to the original domain Carterlake.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

73.2 kB

After Optimization

53.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carterlake.org main page is 73.2 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 47.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 12.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 43.8 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. Carter Lake images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Carterlake.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carter Lake. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

carterlake.org

carterlake.org

871 ms

ajaxpower.js

ajaxpower.js

59 ms

cl-screen.css

cl-screen.css

109 ms

oax.png

oax.png

77 ms

cl-newlogo02.gif

cl-newlogo02.gif

65 ms

wu-smallradar.php

wu-smallradar.php

546 ms

nsct.jpg

nsct.jpg

110 ms

DualImage.php

DualImage.php

120 ms

carterlakecamlivethumb.jpg

carterlakecamlivethumb.jpg

110 ms

webcam2.jpg

webcam2.jpg

111 ms

reddown.gif

reddown.gif

112 ms

greenup.gif

greenup.gif

166 ms

S.gif

S.gif

166 ms

tracgraphic.php

tracgraphic.php

174 ms

stormcellkey.gif

stormcellkey.gif

168 ms

cl-topofpage.gif

cl-topofpage.gif

173 ms

cl-print.css

cl-print.css

58 ms

Accessibility Review

carterlake.org accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

carterlake.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

carterlake.org SEO score

62

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carterlake.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 Carterlake.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

carterlake.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carter Lake. 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: