Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

itascaproject.com

Employer-Led Civic Alliance - Minneapolis MN - The Itasca Project

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

238 ms

itascaproject.com screenshot

About Website

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The Itasca Project is an employer-led civic alliance focused on building a thriving economy and expanding prosperity, based in Minneapolis MN.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itascaproject.com page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itascaproject.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itascaproject.com

113 ms

domain_profile.cfm

360 ms

common.css

71 ms

v3.css

75 ms

pages_v3b.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Itascaproject.com, 79% (33 requests) were made to Static.hugedomains.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Hugedomains.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.5 sec) relates to the external source Static.hugedomains.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 183.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

531.1 kB

After Optimization

347.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Itascaproject.com main page is 531.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 268.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 9.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 268.0 kB
  • After minification 250.1 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. Itasca Project images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

  • Original 127.3 kB
  • After minification 127.3 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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 64.0 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 91.7 kB

  • Original 122.5 kB
  • After minification 120.7 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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. Itascaproject.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (50%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Itasca Project. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itascaproject.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

itascaproject.com 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

SEO Factors

itascaproject.com SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Itascaproject.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Itascaproject.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Itasca Project. 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: