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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

its-trail.org

ITS Trail Committee - Connecting Communities, one trail at a time

Page Load Speed

21.4 sec in total

First Response

394 ms

Resources Loaded

20.9 sec

Page Rendered

100 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing ITS Trail content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about its-trail.org

ITS Trail Committee - building a trail from Staunton Illinois to Benld Illinois through Sawyerville along the old Illinois Traction System railbed

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Key Findings

We analyzed Its-trail.org page load time and found that the first response time was 394 ms and then it took 21 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

its-trail.org performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

its-trail.org

394 ms

template_css.css

34 ms

style_forestfire.css

66 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

Staunton.gif

20437 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Its-trail.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Banners.wunderground.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Banners.wunderground.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

102.5 kB

After Optimization

88.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Its-trail.org main page is 102.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 81.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 8.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 81.1 kB
  • After minification 77.3 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. ITS Trail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Its-trail.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (71%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ITS Trail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

its-trail.org

its-trail.org

394 ms

template_css.css

template_css.css

34 ms

style_forestfire.css

style_forestfire.css

66 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

Staunton.gif

Staunton.gif

20437 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

5 ms

fr_bg.png

fr_bg.png

35 ms

fr_bg_shadow.png

fr_bg_shadow.png

34 ms

fr_header.png

fr_header.png

65 ms

fr_logo.png

fr_logo.png

66 ms

fr_tab_r.png

fr_tab_r.png

67 ms

fr_tab_l.png

fr_tab_l.png

66 ms

fr_css_large.png

fr_css_large.png

67 ms

fr_css_med.png

fr_css_med.png

66 ms

fr_css_small.png

fr_css_small.png

97 ms

fr_css_wide.png

fr_css_wide.png

98 ms

fr_css_narrow.png

fr_css_narrow.png

99 ms

fr_graphic.jpg

fr_graphic.jpg

177 ms

fr_left_shadow2.png

fr_left_shadow2.png

99 ms

fr_left_corner.png

fr_left_corner.png

99 ms

fr_middle_shadow.png

fr_middle_shadow.png

129 ms

fr_head_left.png

fr_head_left.png

130 ms

fr_menu.png

fr_menu.png

131 ms

rss20.gif

rss20.gif

132 ms

fr_middle_shadow2.png

fr_middle_shadow2.png

133 ms

fr_middle_top.png

fr_middle_top.png

161 ms

fr_middle_corner.png

fr_middle_corner.png

161 ms

fr_right_shadow.png

fr_right_shadow.png

175 ms

fr_right_top.png

fr_right_top.png

175 ms

fr_right_corner.png

fr_right_corner.png

176 ms

Duda_Garden.jpg

Duda_Garden.jpg

194 ms

fr_head_right.png

fr_head_right.png

192 ms

trailsystems.jpg_sml.jpg

trailsystems.jpg_sml.jpg

193 ms

Accessibility Review

its-trail.org accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

its-trail.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

its-trail.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Its-trail.org 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 Its-trail.org 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

its-trail.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ITS Trail. 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: