Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

cedarrapids.org

Welcome to the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

876 ms

Page Rendered

300 ms

cedarrapids.org screenshot

About Website

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

Located in Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Economic Alliance serves nearly 1,200 businesses and organizes major events like the Cedar Rapids Farmers Market.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cedarrapids.org page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cedarrapids.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cedarrapids.org

184 ms

www.cedarrapids.org

301 ms

gtm.js

283 ms

1723708867-cssfe5c280b9db37767864330d32e20dcd2934a7a05b689a69515b513021a7e9.css

32 ms

1723708867-css960118ef712e1397d9610ebbc41b8421b0f7848d19a5e0095474a1b106f75.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Cedarrapids.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (301 ms) belongs to the original domain Cedarrapids.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cedarrapids.org main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 772.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 33.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 772.6 kB
  • After minification 759.1 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. Cedar Rapids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 337.4 kB
  • After minification 337.4 kB
  • After compression 335.6 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 732 B

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 67.5 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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. Cedarrapids.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (72%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cedar Rapids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cedarrapids.org accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

cedarrapids.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cedarrapids.org SEO score

94

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Cedarrapids.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 Cedarrapids.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

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