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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

exploresouthbend.org

Visit South Bend & Mishawaka, IN | Hotels & Things to Do

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

Welcome to exploresouthbend.org homepage info - get ready to check Explore South Bend best content right away, or after learning these important things about exploresouthbend.org

Known for Notre Dame and the St. Joseph River, discover all the reasons explore South Bend Mishawaka. Find restaurants, hotels, and things to do.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Exploresouthbend.org page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 2.6 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

exploresouthbend.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,490 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

exploresouthbend.org

13 ms

visitsouthbend.com

67 ms

www.visitsouthbend.com

204 ms

widget_enews.css

51 ms

shared.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Exploresouthbend.org, 67% (82 requests) were made to Visitsouthbend.com and 25% (31 requests) were made to Assets.simpleviewinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) relates to the external source Admin.bookdirect.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (66%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Exploresouthbend.org main page is 3.7 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. HTML takes 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB
  • After compression 674.6 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 2.4 MB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 511.5 kB
  • After minification 464.0 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. Explore South Bend images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 92.4 kB
  • After compression 78.4 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 14.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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. Exploresouthbend.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.4 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (79%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore South Bend. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 47 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

exploresouthbend.org

exploresouthbend.org

13 ms

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67 ms

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204 ms

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Accessibility Review

exploresouthbend.org accessibility score

72

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

exploresouthbend.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

exploresouthbend.org SEO score

79

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

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 Exploresouthbend.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 Exploresouthbend.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

exploresouthbend.org

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