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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

tourismcedarrapids.com

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Official Travel Guide - Cedar Rapids Tourism

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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About Website

Welcome to tourismcedarrapids.com homepage info - get ready to check Tourism Cedar Rapids best content right away, or after learning these important things about tourismcedarrapids.com

Explore Cedar Rapids, Iowa in Linn County and plan your trip with our travel guides. We've got you covered with the best restaurants, hotels and things to do.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tourismcedarrapids.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 1.5 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

tourismcedarrapids.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tourismcedarrapids.com

63 ms

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17 ms

www.tourismcedarrapids.com

333 ms

webfontloader.js

92 ms

webfont.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Tourismcedarrapids.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Cedar-rapids.s3.amazonaws.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) belongs to the original domain Tourismcedarrapids.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 568.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tourismcedarrapids.com main page is 7.4 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 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 7.4 kB, which is 13% 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 44.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 465.8 kB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Tourism Cedar Rapids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 432.8 kB
  • After minification 416.0 kB
  • After compression 374.6 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 58.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 74 B

  • Original 41.1 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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. Tourismcedarrapids.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (33%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tourism Cedar Rapids. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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63 ms

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17 ms

www.tourismcedarrapids.com

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333 ms

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92 ms

webfont.js

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99 ms

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24 ms

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49 ms

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273 ms

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92 ms

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73 ms

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73 ms

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95 ms

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71 ms

main.min.js

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273 ms

gtm.js

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291 ms

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502 ms

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501 ms

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315 ms

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203 ms

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297 ms

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313 ms

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314 ms

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315 ms

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315 ms

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316 ms

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317 ms

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513 ms

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506 ms

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510 ms

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514 ms

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514 ms

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513 ms

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454 ms

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451 ms

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452 ms

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451 ms

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451 ms

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451 ms

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322 ms

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36 ms

Accessibility Review

tourismcedarrapids.com accessibility score

74

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

tourismcedarrapids.com 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

tourismcedarrapids.com 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

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

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 Tourismcedarrapids.com 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 Tourismcedarrapids.com 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

tourismcedarrapids.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tourism Cedar Rapids. 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: