Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

nrs.fs.fed.us

Northern Research Station

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

523 ms

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The Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nrs.fs.fed.us page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nrs.fs.fed.us performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nrs.fs.fed.us

106 ms

reset.css

10 ms

home-screen.css

257 ms

footer.css

10 ms

jquery-ui-1.9.1.custom.css

290 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Nrs.fs.fed.us, 57% (37 requests) were made to Fs.fed.us and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Query.yahooapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 324.0 kB (48%)

Content Size

680.3 kB

After Optimization

356.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Nrs.fs.fed.us main page is 680.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 336.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 4.1 kB, which is 13% 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 24.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 336.0 kB
  • After minification 270.4 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, Nrs Fs needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.5 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

-72%

Potential reduce by 165.7 kB

  • Original 229.6 kB
  • After minification 165.9 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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 165.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 68.0 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 67.1 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. Nrs.fs.fed.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 68.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (56%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nrs Fs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nrs.fs.fed.us accessibility score

90

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

nrs.fs.fed.us 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nrs.fs.fed.us SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Nrs.fs.fed.us 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 Nrs.fs.fed.us 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 Nrs Fs. 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: