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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

emeraldcities.org

Emerald Cities Collaborative Official Website | Emeraldcities.org

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

479 ms

emeraldcities.org screenshot

About Website

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

The Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) pursues a high-road approach to greening our cities, building resilient regional economies

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emeraldcities.org page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

emeraldcities.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

emeraldcities.org

220 ms

emeraldcities.org

1901 ms

premium-addons.min.css

273 ms

premium-addons.min.css

289 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

286 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Emeraldcities.org, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Emeraldcities.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (13%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emeraldcities.org main page is 8.1 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 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 218.9 kB
  • After minification 213.4 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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 190.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 828.8 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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, Emerald Cities needs image optimization as it can save up to 828.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 234.3 kB
  • After minification 234.3 kB
  • After compression 233.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 426.4 kB
  • After minification 426.4 kB
  • After compression 424.9 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. Emeraldcities.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (72%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Emerald Cities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

emeraldcities.org

emeraldcities.org

220 ms

emeraldcities.org

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1901 ms

premium-addons.min.css

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273 ms

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289 ms

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286 ms

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261 ms

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1467 ms

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61 ms

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Accessibility Review

emeraldcities.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

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

emeraldcities.org best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

emeraldcities.org SEO score

87

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 Emeraldcities.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 Emeraldcities.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

emeraldcities.org

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