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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ithacaura.org

Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA) | Ithaca, NY - Official Website

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

642 ms

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About Website

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Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA) administers federal dollars to benefit low- to moderate-income individuals and families in Ithaca, by funding projects in housing, economic development, public facil...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ithacaura.org page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ithacaura.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ithacaura.org

14 ms

Ithaca-Urban-Renewal-Agency

501 ms

gtm.js

49 ms

antiforgery

93 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ithacaura.org, 88% (22 requests) were made to Cityofithaca.org and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (708 ms) relates to the external source Cityofithaca.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.2 kB (44%)

Content Size

431.7 kB

After Optimization

243.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ithacaura.org main page is 431.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 175.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 145.8 kB

  • Original 175.9 kB
  • After minification 170.2 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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 145.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 139.5 kB
  • After minification 126.9 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. Ithaca Ura images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 107.3 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 80.9 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 26.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Ithacaura.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (61%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ithaca Ura. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ithacaura.org

ithacaura.org

14 ms

Ithaca-Urban-Renewal-Agency

Ithaca-Urban-Renewal-Agency

501 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

49 ms

antiforgery

antiforgery

93 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

225 ms

jQuery-migrate-1.4.1.js

jQuery-migrate-1.4.1.js

96 ms

1190582903.css

1190582903.css

176 ms

1394846409.css

1394846409.css

175 ms

1910858510.js

1910858510.js

162 ms

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

133 ms

Search.js

Search.js

139 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

185 ms

ai.0.js

ai.0.js

16 ms

745732998.css

745732998.css

147 ms

APIClient.js

APIClient.js

174 ms

Moment.min.js

Moment.min.js

245 ms

SplashModalRender.js

SplashModalRender.js

244 ms

-20650605.js

-20650605.js

708 ms

Document

Document

50 ms

Document

Document

47 ms

Document

Document

48 ms

Document

Document

96 ms

Document

Document

95 ms

Document

Document

46 ms

Print.css

Print.css

50 ms

Accessibility Review

ithacaura.org accessibility score

88

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

ithacaura.org best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ithacaura.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ithacaura.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 Ithacaura.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

ithacaura.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ithaca Ura. 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: