Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

dev.houstonzoo.org

HOUSTON ZOO | Providing a fun, unique, and inspirational experience fostering appreciation, knowledge, and care for the natural world.

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dev.houstonzoo.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dev.houstonzoo.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dev.houstonzoo.org

1597 ms

khk7egk.js

155 ms

jquery.min.js

77 ms

jquery.spritely.js

103 ms

style.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Dev.houstonzoo.org, 8% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (6 requests) were made to Smaug.houstonzoo.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Dev.houstonzoo.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 858.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Dev.houstonzoo.org main page is 2.5 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. 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.7 kB

  • Original 115.5 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 95.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 92.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Dev HOUSTON ZOO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 272.3 kB

  • Original 498.3 kB
  • After minification 432.3 kB
  • After compression 226.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 272.3 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 398.3 kB

  • Original 469.3 kB
  • After minification 405.9 kB
  • After compression 71.0 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. Dev.houstonzoo.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 398.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (53%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dev HOUSTON ZOO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dev.houstonzoo.org SEO score

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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 Dev.houstonzoo.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 Dev.houstonzoo.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 data is detected on the main page of Dev HOUSTON ZOO. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: