Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

rivercentre.org

Saint Paul RiverCentre | Minnesota Conference and Convention Center in St. Paul, MN | Saint Paul RiverCentre

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

750 ms

Page Rendered

358 ms

rivercentre.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rivercentre.org page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.1 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

rivercentre.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.423

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rivercentre.org

29 ms

www.rivercentre.org

276 ms

hybrid_framework.css

16 ms

style.css

33 ms

layout.engine.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Rivercentre.org, 22% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (276 ms) belongs to the original domain Rivercentre.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Rivercentre.org main page is 1.4 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 962.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 156.8 kB

  • Original 232.8 kB
  • After minification 218.5 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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 156.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 962.5 kB
  • After minification 905.7 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. River Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 263 B

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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. Rivercentre.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (35%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of River Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rivercentre.org accessibility score

89

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

rivercentre.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

rivercentre.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 Rivercentre.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 Rivercentre.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

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