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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

charlesrivermedia.com

Boston Video Production Agency - Charles River Media Group

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

449 ms

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About Website

Welcome to charlesrivermedia.com homepage info - get ready to check Charles River Media best content right away, or after learning these important things about charlesrivermedia.com

Boston video production company specializing in corporate, non-profit, television, events, and live streaming with a studio near Boston, Massachusetts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlesrivermedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlesrivermedia.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlesrivermedia.com

1549 ms

styles.css

45 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

92 ms

style.css

188 ms

cli1vay.css

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Charlesrivermedia.com, 12% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Charlesrivermedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 390.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

736.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charlesrivermedia.com main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 499.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 62.2 kB
  • After minification 60.2 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 48.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 101.5 kB

  • Original 499.5 kB
  • After minification 398.0 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. Obviously, Charles River Media needs image optimization as it can save up to 101.5 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 182.2 kB

  • Original 493.2 kB
  • After minification 493.2 kB
  • After compression 311.1 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 182.2 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 58.5 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 70.9 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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. Charlesrivermedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (24%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charles River Media. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

charlesrivermedia.com accessibility score

88

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

charlesrivermedia.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

charlesrivermedia.com SEO score

91

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

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 Charlesrivermedia.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 Charlesrivermedia.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

charlesrivermedia.com

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