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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thefirstgreen.org

First Green | A GCSAA Program | STEM Education Program

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The First Green content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thefirstgreen.org

First Green is a program run by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA). The program involves STEM learning labs for local schools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefirstgreen.org page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefirstgreen.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.221

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefirstgreen.org

51 ms

www.thefirstgreen.org

875 ms

analytics.js

75 ms

common-skeleton.min.css

11 ms

tooltip.min.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Thefirstgreen.org, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (875 ms) belongs to the original domain Thefirstgreen.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefirstgreen.org main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 121.8 kB

  • Original 145.7 kB
  • After minification 142.1 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 121.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. The First Green images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 59.6 kB

  • Original 290.7 kB
  • After minification 290.2 kB
  • After compression 231.1 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 59.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 140.5 kB
  • After minification 140.3 kB
  • After compression 108.2 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. Thefirstgreen.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (68%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The First Green. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thefirstgreen.org

thefirstgreen.org

51 ms

www.thefirstgreen.org

www.thefirstgreen.org

875 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

75 ms

common-skeleton.min.css

common-skeleton.min.css

11 ms

tooltip.min.css

tooltip.min.css

38 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

33 ms

styles.css

styles.css

37 ms

settings.css

settings.css

71 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

62 ms

basic.css

basic.css

46 ms

grid.css

grid.css

42 ms

theme-style.css

theme-style.css

48 ms

elements.css

elements.css

55 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

53 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

89 ms

css

css

68 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

69 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

69 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

69 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

67 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

140 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

140 ms

js

js

242 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

182 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

183 ms

main.js

main.js

199 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

135 ms

collect

collect

314 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

139 ms

tag.aspx

tag.aspx

238 ms

ti.js

ti.js

289 ms

First-Green-Logo.png

First-Green-Logo.png

218 ms

First-Green-Field-Trip-Hero-1920x731.jpg

First-Green-Field-Trip-Hero-1920x731.jpg

269 ms

First-Green-Learning-1920x880.jpg

First-Green-Learning-1920x880.jpg

225 ms

Mike-and-Tami-Hoffman-1024x768.jpeg

Mike-and-Tami-Hoffman-1024x768.jpeg

221 ms

First-Green-82223.jpg

First-Green-82223.jpg

219 ms

FirstGreen-5323.png

FirstGreen-5323.png

224 ms

GCSAA_eifg.png

GCSAA_eifg.png

220 ms

facebook-square-40.png

facebook-square-40.png

221 ms

twitter-square-40.png

twitter-square-40.png

267 ms

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209 ms

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210 ms

blade-icons.woff

blade-icons.woff

207 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

209 ms

Accessibility Review

thefirstgreen.org accessibility score

79

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

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

thefirstgreen.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thefirstgreen.org SEO score

91

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

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 Thefirstgreen.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 Thefirstgreen.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

thefirstgreen.org

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