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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

riverbender.com

RiverBender.com - Your #1 Source for Local News, Sports, Community Events & More in the Greater Alton Area

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

riverbender.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Riverbender.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

riverbender.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

riverbender.com

45 ms

www.riverbender.com

147 ms

css

146 ms

homepage.css

29 ms

listing.css

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Riverbender.com, 28% (51 requests) were made to Static.riverbender.com and 19% (34 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Go.automatad.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

10.9 MB

After Optimization

10.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Riverbender.com main page is 10.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 133.1 kB

  • Original 167.1 kB
  • After minification 162.9 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. 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 133.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 9.9 MB
  • After minification 9.8 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. River Bender images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 49.6 kB

  • Original 876.2 kB
  • After minification 876.1 kB
  • After compression 826.6 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. Riverbender.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (30%)

Requests Now

157

After Optimization

110

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 157 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of River Bender. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

riverbender.com accessibility score

68

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

riverbender.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

riverbender.com SEO score

93

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

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 Riverbender.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 Riverbender.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

riverbender.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of River Bender. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: