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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

recycal.org

recycal.org | A Service of Alabama Environmental Council |

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

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The Alabama Environmental Council (AEC) is a statewide, nonprofit organization engaging citizens toward sustainable living and stewardship of the environment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recycal.org page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recycal.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recycal.org

86 ms

www.recycal.org

152 ms

system.base.css

99 ms

system.menus.css

95 ms

system.messages.css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Recycal.org, 37% (37 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (672 ms) relates to the external source File.myfontastic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

851.9 kB

After Optimization

675.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Recycal.org main page is 851.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 517.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 46.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 517.9 kB
  • After minification 500.1 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. Recycal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 107.0 kB

  • Original 260.2 kB
  • After minification 258.2 kB
  • After compression 153.2 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 107.0 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 16.8 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Recycal.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (61%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recycal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

recycal.org

recycal.org

86 ms

www.recycal.org

www.recycal.org

152 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

99 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

95 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

74 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

101 ms

adaptive-image.css

adaptive-image.css

114 ms

ais.css

ais.css

90 ms

field.css

field.css

134 ms

node.css

node.css

142 ms

search.css

search.css

177 ms

user.css

user.css

228 ms

extlink.css

extlink.css

91 ms

views.css

views.css

118 ms

ckeditor.css

ckeditor.css

111 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

179 ms

gmap.css

gmap.css

176 ms

style.css

style.css

176 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

116 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

178 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

223 ms

extlink.js

extlink.js

212 ms

ais.js

ais.js

205 ms

googleanalytics.js

googleanalytics.js

205 ms

gmap.js

gmap.js

191 ms

js

js

156 ms

icon.js

icon.js

375 ms

marker.js

marker.js

356 ms

highlight.js

highlight.js

375 ms

poly.js

poly.js

374 ms

gmap_markers.js

gmap_markers.js

375 ms

markerloader_static.js

markerloader_static.js

373 ms

gmap_marker.js

gmap_marker.js

388 ms

responsiveslides.css

responsiveslides.css

413 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

411 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

responsiveslides.min.js

411 ms

scrollTo-min.js

scrollTo-min.js

420 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

413 ms

jquery.visible.js

jquery.visible.js

418 ms

css

css

383 ms

icons.css

icons.css

672 ms

video-js.css

video-js.css

191 ms

videojs-ie8.min.js

videojs-ie8.min.js

359 ms

custom.js

custom.js

415 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

140 ms

gen_204

gen_204

60 ms

logo_recycal.svg

logo_recycal.svg

37 ms

bldg.jpg

bldg.jpg

40 ms

collect

collect

53 ms

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1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVs9pbCIPrQ.ttf

54 ms

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59 ms

hotjar-180782.js

hotjar-180782.js

372 ms

menu-leaf.png

menu-leaf.png

386 ms

hotjar-180782.js

hotjar-180782.js

129 ms

aec_recycal.jpg

aec_recycal.jpg

110 ms

extlink_s.png

extlink_s.png

111 ms

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48 ms

1489155872.woff

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301 ms

socicon.woff

socicon.woff

107 ms

common.js

common.js

38 ms

util.js

util.js

40 ms

map.js

map.js

28 ms

overlay.js

overlay.js

25 ms

infowindow.js

infowindow.js

22 ms

marker.js

marker.js

64 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

92 ms

onion.js

onion.js

105 ms

socicon.ttf

socicon.ttf

74 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

166 ms

socicon.svg

socicon.svg

69 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

116 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

92 ms

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92 ms

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55 ms

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125 ms

QuotaService.RecordEvent

QuotaService.RecordEvent

426 ms

Accessibility Review

recycal.org accessibility score

79

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

recycal.org best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

recycal.org SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Recycal.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 Recycal.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

recycal.org

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