Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cedarvalleyregion.com

Cedar Valley, Iowa Economic Development Marketing Partnership | CVRP

Page Load Speed

886 ms in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

521 ms

Page Rendered

354 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cedarvalleyregion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 875 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cedarvalleyregion.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.145

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cedarvalleyregion.com

11 ms

www.cedarvalleyregion.com

29 ms

www.cedarvalleyregion.com

29 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

WebForms.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Cedarvalleyregion.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (273 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Cedarvalleyregion.com main page is 1.4 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 209.8 kB

  • Original 256.4 kB
  • After minification 245.8 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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 209.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 1.0 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. Cedar Valley Region images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 39.9 kB

  • Original 112.6 kB
  • After minification 112.6 kB
  • After compression 72.7 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 39.9 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Cedarvalleyregion.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (34%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cedar Valley Region. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cedarvalleyregion.com accessibility score

76

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

cedarvalleyregion.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

cedarvalleyregion.com SEO score

83

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

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 Cedarvalleyregion.com 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 Cedarvalleyregion.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of Cedar Valley Region. 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: