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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

rpu.org

RPU We Pledge, We Deliver | Home | Rochester Public Utilities

Page Load Speed

915 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

492 ms

Page Rendered

393 ms

rpu.org screenshot

About Website

Visit rpu.org now to see the best up-to-date RPU content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rpu.org

Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) powering Rochester, MN for over 120 years. Learn more about what RPU has to offer, pay your bill, or check out the events.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rpu.org page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 885 ms 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

rpu.org performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rpu.org

30 ms

rpu.org

15 ms

www.rpu.org

107 ms

styles.min.css

9 ms

css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Rpu.org, 49% (22 requests) were made to Cms.cws.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (225 ms) relates to the external source Cms.cws.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 968.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Rpu.org main page is 8.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 60.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 907.3 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Obviously, RPU needs image optimization as it can save up to 907.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 115 B

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RPU. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rpu.org

rpu.org

30 ms

rpu.org

rpu.org

15 ms

www.rpu.org

www.rpu.org

107 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

9 ms

css

css

49 ms

bg_img.php

bg_img.php

14 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

27 ms

touch.min.js

touch.min.js

17 ms

gallery.min.js

gallery.min.js

17 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

21 ms

link.js

link.js

20 ms

element.js

element.js

165 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

215 ms

fb.png

fb.png

116 ms

15_cs_logo.jpg

15_cs_logo.jpg

225 ms

1720539759-1600-RPU_PI_WebSlide_JulyAug24_background.png

1720539759-1600-RPU_PI_WebSlide_JulyAug24_background.png

169 ms

RPU_PI_WebSlide_JulyAug24_cover.png

RPU_PI_WebSlide_JulyAug24_cover.png

121 ms

1714158222-1600-RPU_CS_EV+Mowers2024_WebSlide_Background.png

1714158222-1600-RPU_CS_EV+Mowers2024_WebSlide_Background.png

171 ms

conserve(1).png

conserve(1).png

120 ms

1720559335-1600-RPU_BYOD_JulyAug2024_WebSlide_background.png

1720559335-1600-RPU_BYOD_JulyAug2024_WebSlide_background.png

133 ms

RPU_PISES_Logo.png

RPU_PISES_Logo.png

122 ms

1720559559-1600-RPU_NCI_JulyAug24_WebSlide_Background.png

1720559559-1600-RPU_NCI_JulyAug24_WebSlide_Background.png

171 ms

RPU_NCI_Sept-Oct_WebSlide_Logo.png

RPU_NCI_Sept-Oct_WebSlide_Logo.png

124 ms

1720559985-1600-RPU_SolarContractors_WebSlide_Background.png

1720559985-1600-RPU_SolarContractors_WebSlide_Background.png

149 ms

1720561139-1600-RPU_OutageAlerts2024_WebSlide_Background.png

1720561139-1600-RPU_OutageAlerts2024_WebSlide_Background.png

167 ms

RPU_OutageAlerts2024_WebSlide_Logo.png

RPU_OutageAlerts2024_WebSlide_Logo.png

148 ms

1720558756-1600-RPU_CS-AC-ASHP_JulyAug2024_WebSlide_Background.png

1720558756-1600-RPU_CS-AC-ASHP_JulyAug2024_WebSlide_Background.png

172 ms

RPU-Customer-Service-Building.jpg

RPU-Customer-Service-Building.jpg

150 ms

city-of-rochester.png

city-of-rochester.png

151 ms

American-Public-Power-Member.png

American-Public-Power-Member.png

153 ms

AWWA-logo.png

AWWA-logo.png

166 ms

WaterSense-Logo.png

WaterSense-Logo.png

168 ms

Energy-Star.png

Energy-Star.png

173 ms

RP3.jpg

RP3.jpg

169 ms

TREELINE.jpg

TREELINE.jpg

172 ms

Smart-Energy.jpg

Smart-Energy.jpg

174 ms

rss.png

rss.png

79 ms

yt.png

yt.png

86 ms

RPU-logo.png

RPU-logo.png

85 ms

x.png

x.png

78 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

123 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

130 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

148 ms

rpu.woff

rpu.woff

85 ms

cse.js

cse.js

161 ms

Accessibility Review

rpu.org accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rpu.org best practices score

75

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

rpu.org SEO score

77

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rpu.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 Rpu.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

rpu.org

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