Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

events.richmond.com

Richmond Events | Richmond Times-Dispatch | richmond.com

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

133 ms

events.richmond.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Events.richmond.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

events.richmond.com performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.628

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

96 ms

58 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

104 ms

layout.d9bf9fa5b377514df7224a864456e96d.css

110 ms

lee.ds.css

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Events.richmond.com, 25% (18 requests) were made to Richmond.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (383 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

855.8 kB

After Optimization

708.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Events.richmond.com main page is 855.8 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 638.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 96.0 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.4 kB, which is 20% 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 96.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 19.9 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. Events Richmond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 638.2 kB
  • After minification 638.1 kB
  • After compression 602.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. Events.richmond.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (73%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Events Richmond. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

events.richmond.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

events.richmond.com SEO score

88

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

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 Events.richmond.com 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 Events.richmond.com 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 Events Richmond. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: