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lcra.org

LCRA - Lower Colorado River Authority - Energy, Water, Community

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

881 ms

lcra.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lcra.org page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lcra.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lcra.org

190 ms

www.lcra.org

175 ms

default.aspx

254 ms

corev15.css

217 ms

controls15.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Lcra.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (892 ms) belongs to the original domain Lcra.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (36%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Lcra.org main page is 5.4 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. 80% 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 139.4 kB

  • Original 160.2 kB
  • After minification 152.6 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 139.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 137.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. LCRA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 465.8 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 1.3 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 401.6 kB

  • Original 461.9 kB
  • After minification 330.2 kB
  • After compression 60.2 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. Lcra.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 401.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (69%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LCRA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lcra.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 Lcra.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 Lcra.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 LCRA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: