Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

cmcanow.org

Center for Maine Contemporary Art | Advancing contemporary art in Maine through exhibitions and educational programs

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

cmcanow.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cmcanow.org homepage info - get ready to check Cmcanow best content right away, or after learning these important things about cmcanow.org

CMCA is Maine's preeminent contemporary arts organization. Supporting, exhibiting, & sustaining arts & artists with Maine ties since 1952. Now in Rockland

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cmcanow.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cmcanow.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.438

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cmcanow.org

1229 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

64 ms

dashicons.min.css

176 ms

jquery-ui-dialog.min.css

163 ms

style.min.css

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (139 requests) were addressed to the original Cmcanow.org, 4% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cmcanow.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (25%)

Content Size

8.6 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Cmcanow.org main page is 8.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 117.5 kB

  • Original 144.7 kB
  • After minification 142.7 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 117.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 7.8 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Obviously, Cmcanow needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.0 MB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 428.7 kB
  • After minification 428.2 kB
  • After compression 415.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 235.1 kB
  • After minification 235.1 kB
  • After compression 224.9 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. Cmcanow.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 120 (83%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cmcanow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 80 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 42 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cmcanow.org accessibility score

79

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cmcanow.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cmcanow.org SEO score

86

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 Cmcanow.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 Cmcanow.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 Cmcanow. 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: