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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

riverbanks.org

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden :: Columbia, South Carolina

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

902 ms

Page Rendered

260 ms

riverbanks.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to riverbanks.org homepage info - get ready to check Riverbanks best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about riverbanks.org

One of America's best zoos, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is home to more than 2,000 animals and one of the nation's most inspiring botanical gardens.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Riverbanks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 60 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

riverbanks.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

riverbanks.org

60 ms

www.riverbanks.org

150 ms

font-awesome-v4.min.css

45 ms

sitewide.css

41 ms

home.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Riverbanks.org, 17% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (245 ms) belongs to the original domain Riverbanks.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Riverbanks.org main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 6.9 kB, which is 19% 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 28.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Riverbanks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 70.5 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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 33.3 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 55.4 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Riverbanks.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (27%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Riverbanks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

riverbanks.org

riverbanks.org

60 ms

www.riverbanks.org

www.riverbanks.org

150 ms

font-awesome-v4.min.css

font-awesome-v4.min.css

45 ms

sitewide.css

sitewide.css

41 ms

home.css

home.css

37 ms

kzg1kkl.js

kzg1kkl.js

73 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

home.min.js

home.min.js

56 ms

www.riverbanks.org

www.riverbanks.org

221 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

bkground-1.jpg

bkground-1.jpg

187 ms

bklayout.jpg

bklayout.jpg

193 ms

logoNEW.png

logoNEW.png

182 ms

logoNEW.png

logoNEW.png

177 ms

btn-membership.png

btn-membership.png

179 ms

btn-donate.png

btn-donate.png

178 ms

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178 ms

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193 ms

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182 ms

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190 ms

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188 ms

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184 ms

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183 ms

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185 ms

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186 ms

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192 ms

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194 ms

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icon_order.gif

193 ms

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icon_info.gif

245 ms

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223 ms

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225 ms

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224 ms

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225 ms

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226 ms

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229 ms

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230 ms

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25 ms

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123 ms

Accessibility Review

riverbanks.org accessibility score

87

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

riverbanks.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

riverbanks.org SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Riverbanks.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 Riverbanks.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

riverbanks.org

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