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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

cedarcreekinstitute.org

Pierce Cedar Creek Institute | Environmental Nature Center & Biological Field Station | Hastings, MI

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

298 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

800 ms

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About Website

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Pierce Cedar Creek Institute is a nature center, environmental education center and biological field station located on 742 acres in Hastings, Michigan. With more than 9 miles of hiking trails, an eve...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cedarcreekinstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 298 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cedarcreekinstitute.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cedarcreekinstitute.org

298 ms

www.cedarcreekinstitute.org

807 ms

css

36 ms

style.min.css

110 ms

all.min.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Cedarcreekinstitute.org, 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (807 ms) belongs to the original domain Cedarcreekinstitute.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 243.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cedarcreekinstitute.org main page is 2.2 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 185.2 kB

  • Original 214.0 kB
  • After minification 208.2 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 185.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Cedar Creek Institute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 341.2 kB
  • After minification 341.1 kB
  • After compression 321.3 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 184.0 kB
  • After minification 150.6 kB
  • After compression 149.0 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. Cedarcreekinstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (66%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cedar Creek Institute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cedarcreekinstitute.org

cedarcreekinstitute.org

298 ms

www.cedarcreekinstitute.org

www.cedarcreekinstitute.org

807 ms

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36 ms

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110 ms

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165 ms

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54 ms

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223 ms

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169 ms

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276 ms

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230 ms

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284 ms

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313 ms

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264 ms

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388 ms

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553 ms

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Accessibility Review

cedarcreekinstitute.org accessibility score

94

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

cedarcreekinstitute.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cedarcreekinstitute.org SEO score

79

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

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 Cedarcreekinstitute.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 Cedarcreekinstitute.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

cedarcreekinstitute.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cedar Creek Institute. 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: