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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ruston.org

City of Ruston, Louisiana

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

342 ms

ruston.org screenshot

About Website

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

As a university community, Ruston offers residents and visitors alike a quality of life that reflects the best of the American experience. Located at the crossroads of the South and Southwest, Ruston ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ruston.org page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ruston.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.109

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ruston.org

145 ms

ruston.org

245 ms

www.ruston.org

320 ms

js

84 ms

nivo-style.min.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Ruston.org, 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (675 ms) belongs to the original domain Ruston.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.3 kB (1%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ruston.org main page is 5.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 45.4 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 39.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Ruston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 291.2 kB
  • After minification 291.2 kB
  • After compression 288.5 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Ruston.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (36%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ruston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ruston.org

ruston.org

145 ms

ruston.org

ruston.org

245 ms

www.ruston.org

www.ruston.org

320 ms

js

js

84 ms

nivo-style.min.css

nivo-style.min.css

80 ms

nivo-slider.min.css

nivo-slider.min.css

151 ms

theme-default.min.css

theme-default.min.css

187 ms

css

css

57 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

194 ms

col.min.css

col.min.css

196 ms

custom.css

custom.css

198 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

40 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

44 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

56 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

56 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

237 ms

jquery.matchHeight.min.js

jquery.matchHeight.min.js

239 ms

cse.js

cse.js

64 ms

mlink2.php

mlink2.php

149 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

54 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

69 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

55 ms

all.js

all.js

93 ms

iconFacebook.png

iconFacebook.png

84 ms

iconInstagram.png

iconInstagram.png

83 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

84 ms

iconMenu_mobile.png

iconMenu_mobile.png

83 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

82 ms

083359-Sports_Complex_Slider_Image.jpg

083359-Sports_Complex_Slider_Image.jpg

364 ms

083742-Downtown_Slider_Image.jpg

083742-Downtown_Slider_Image.jpg

483 ms

083905-RPAR_Slider_Image.jpg

083905-RPAR_Slider_Image.jpg

523 ms

084059-slideEngineering.jpg

084059-slideEngineering.jpg

413 ms

083540-slideMovingForward.jpg

083540-slideMovingForward.jpg

420 ms

mobile-083359-Sports_Complex_Slider_Image.jpg

mobile-083359-Sports_Complex_Slider_Image.jpg

297 ms

mobile-083742-Downtown_Slider_Image.jpg

mobile-083742-Downtown_Slider_Image.jpg

466 ms

mobile-083905-RPAR_Slider_Image.jpg

mobile-083905-RPAR_Slider_Image.jpg

483 ms

mobile-084059-slideEngineering.jpg

mobile-084059-slideEngineering.jpg

472 ms

mobile-083540-slideMovingForward.jpg

mobile-083540-slideMovingForward.jpg

477 ms

billPay-smaller.jpg

billPay-smaller.jpg

524 ms

RustonSmartButton.jpg

RustonSmartButton.jpg

531 ms

Reportaproblem300x385.jpg

Reportaproblem300x385.jpg

537 ms

feedbackSurvey.svg

feedbackSurvey.svg

548 ms

recycling.jpg

recycling.jpg

540 ms

economicDev.jpg

economicDev.jpg

578 ms

floodPlainEd.jpg

floodPlainEd.jpg

580 ms

section8Housing.jpg

section8Housing.jpg

589 ms

realChangeForRuston.jpg

realChangeForRuston.jpg

596 ms

cityCouncil.jpg

cityCouncil.jpg

599 ms

cityDirectory280x280.jpg

cityDirectory280x280.jpg

608 ms

militaryMuseum.jpg

militaryMuseum.jpg

634 ms

CustomerServiceButton.jpg

CustomerServiceButton.jpg

636 ms

rust-n-alerts.svg

rust-n-alerts.svg

664 ms

logoRetirementCertified.png

logoRetirementCertified.png

655 ms

msAmericaLogo.svg

msAmericaLogo.svg

673 ms

logoLDRC.png

logoLDRC.png

675 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

81 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

118 ms

minimalist.css

minimalist.css

121 ms

Yq6R-LCAWCX3-6Ky7FAFrOF6lw.ttf

Yq6R-LCAWCX3-6Ky7FAFrOF6lw.ttf

64 ms

all.js

all.js

14 ms

86 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

22 ms

branding.png

branding.png

18 ms

clear.png

clear.png

14 ms

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14 ms

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21 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

60 ms

Accessibility Review

ruston.org accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

ruston.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

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

SEO Factors

ruston.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Ruston.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 Ruston.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

ruston.org

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