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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

ourvalley.org

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

469 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ourvalley.org page load time and found that the first response time was 469 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ourvalley.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,280 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ourvalley.org

469 ms

style.css

74 ms

thickbox.css

122 ms

styles.css

123 ms

awpcpstyle.css

139 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 Ourvalley.org, 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (469 ms) belongs to the original domain Ourvalley.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

618.8 kB

After Optimization

437.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ourvalley.org main page is 618.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 383.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.0 kB, which is 29% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 383.9 kB
  • After minification 358.2 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. Ourvalley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 157.7 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 93.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 40.8 kB

  • Original 49.4 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Ourvalley.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (31%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ourvalley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ourvalley.org

ourvalley.org

469 ms

style.css

style.css

74 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

122 ms

styles.css

styles.css

123 ms

awpcpstyle.css

awpcpstyle.css

139 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

212 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

152 ms

wp-google-weather.css

wp-google-weather.css

141 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

181 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

190 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

238 ms

awpcp.js

awpcp.js

239 ms

topbanner.png

topbanner.png

67 ms

headerbg.gif

headerbg.gif

69 ms

OV_logo.gif

OV_logo.gif

62 ms

nav_salem_01.gif

nav_salem_01.gif

70 ms

nav_messenger_02.gif

nav_messenger_02.gif

58 ms

nav_castle_03.gif

nav_castle_03.gif

68 ms

nav_vinton_04.gif

nav_vinton_04.gif

116 ms

nav_journal_05.gif

nav_journal_05.gif

118 ms

nav_fincastle_06.gif

nav_fincastle_06.gif

133 ms

nav_subscribe.gif

nav_subscribe.gif

145 ms

arrow_blue.gif

arrow_blue.gif

139 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

216 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

240 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

243 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

285 ms

thumb.php

thumb.php

285 ms

20091008_PAGE_STR1.jpg

20091008_PAGE_STR1.jpg

348 ms

ga.js

ga.js

4 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

235 ms

Accessibility Review

ourvalley.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

ourvalley.org 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

ourvalley.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ourvalley.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ourvalley.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

ourvalley.org

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