Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

parks.sccmo.org

Parks & Recreation | St Charles County, MO - Official Website

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

parks.sccmo.org screenshot

About Website

Visit parks.sccmo.org now to see the best up-to-date Parks Scc MO content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about parks.sccmo.org

The department's mission is to preserve natural and historic features in areas throughout the county for the use of future generations. Today, the department has 22 parks, of which 19 are open and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parks.sccmo.org page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

parks.sccmo.org performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,110 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.464

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parks.sccmo.org

121 ms

Parks-Recreation

651 ms

gtm.js

41 ms

froala_editor_2.6.1.min.css

121 ms

1289459508.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Parks.sccmo.org, 56% (42 requests) were made to Sccmo.org and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (651 ms) relates to the external source Sccmo.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 602.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Parks.sccmo.org main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 91.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 994.0 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. Parks Scc MO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 190.1 kB

  • Original 406.4 kB
  • After minification 385.7 kB
  • After compression 216.3 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 190.1 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 295.7 kB

  • Original 366.6 kB
  • After minification 365.5 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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. Parks.sccmo.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 295.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (60%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parks Scc MO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

parks.sccmo.org accessibility score

82

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

parks.sccmo.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

parks.sccmo.org SEO score

74

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Parks.sccmo.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 Parks.sccmo.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 description is not detected on the main page of Parks Scc MO. 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: