Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

cityofloveland.org

City of Loveland | Home

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

347 ms

cityofloveland.org screenshot

About Website

Visit cityofloveland.org now to see the best up-to-date City Of Loveland content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cityofloveland.org

Official municipal website for Loveland, Colorado. Includes government listings, and area activities & attractions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofloveland.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofloveland.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityofloveland.org

1738 ms

admin.css

147 ms

custom.css

300 ms

editor.css

144 ms

dropdownmenu.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofloveland.org, 6% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cityofloveland.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 575.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Cityofloveland.org main page is 2.4 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 245.6 kB

  • Original 286.9 kB
  • After minification 283.2 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 245.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. City Of Loveland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 204.6 kB

  • Original 393.9 kB
  • After minification 364.7 kB
  • After compression 189.4 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 204.6 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 79.5 kB

  • Original 99.8 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Cityofloveland.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (47%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Of Loveland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cityofloveland.org accessibility score

88

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

cityofloveland.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cityofloveland.org SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cityofloveland.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cityofloveland.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 description is not detected on the main page of City Of Loveland. 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: