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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

commonwaters.org

Massachusetts Watershed Coalition - Stormwater Runoff Management & Standards, Wachusett Greenprint Watershed Management, Rain Gardens, Conservation, E...

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

815 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

199 ms

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The Massachusetts Watershed Coalition works with communities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protect and restore watershed ecosystems to sustain healthy rivers, streams, lakes, municipal and p...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Commonwaters.org page load time and found that the first response time was 815 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

commonwaters.org performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.25

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

commonwaters.org

815 ms

jcemediabox.css

31 ms

style.css

34 ms

style.css

30 ms

highslide.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Commonwaters.org, 2% (2 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 Commonwaters.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 533.8 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

969.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Commonwaters.org main page is 1.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 54.3 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 51.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 218.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 854.0 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, Common Water S needs image optimization as it can save up to 218.6 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

-66%

Potential reduce by 172.9 kB

  • Original 262.1 kB
  • After minification 237.4 kB
  • After compression 89.1 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 172.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 108.2 kB
  • After minification 76.1 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. Commonwaters.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (59%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Common Water S. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

commonwaters.org

commonwaters.org

815 ms

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jcemediabox.css

31 ms

style.css

style.css

34 ms

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30 ms

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64 ms

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103 ms

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74 ms

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207 ms

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126 ms

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126 ms

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125 ms

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84 ms

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18 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

commonwaters.org accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

commonwaters.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

commonwaters.org SEO score

62

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Commonwaters.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 Commonwaters.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

commonwaters.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Common Water S. 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: