Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

riversidetownship.org

Riverside Township of Illinois | Official Township Website

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

riversidetownship.org screenshot

About Website

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Services for Riverside Township Residents include Food Pantry, Property Tax Advocacy, Senior Services, Financial Assistance, Building Space Rental and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Riversidetownship.org page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

riversidetownship.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.348

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

riversidetownship.org

167 ms

tribe-events-pro-full.min.css

105 ms

accessibility.min.css

99 ms

tribe-events-full.min.css

29 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Riversidetownship.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (348 ms) belongs to the original domain Riversidetownship.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 274.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

835.4 kB

After Optimization

560.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Riversidetownship.org main page is 835.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 494.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 121.4 kB

  • Original 144.0 kB
  • After minification 127.0 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 17.0 kB, which is 12% 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 121.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 34.9 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. Riverside Township images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 103.0 kB

  • Original 494.4 kB
  • After minification 493.9 kB
  • After compression 391.3 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 103.0 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 161.1 kB
  • After minification 125.0 kB
  • After compression 111.8 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. Riversidetownship.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 89 (91%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Riverside Township. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

riversidetownship.org accessibility score

78

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.

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

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

riversidetownship.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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

riversidetownship.org SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Riversidetownship.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 Riversidetownship.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 Riverside Township. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: