Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

traveliowa.com

Travel Iowa | Official Iowa Tourism and Travel Website

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

traveliowa.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to traveliowa.com homepage info - get ready to check Travel Iowa best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about traveliowa.com

Travel Iowa is the official tourism website of the State of Iowa. Explore places and events and discover the best things to do in Iowa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Traveliowa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

traveliowa.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

traveliowa.com

225 ms

www.traveliowa.com

299 ms

gtm.js

93 ms

tlf4yyd.css

67 ms

combinedBEFF52D442F16089778417CD57B0C40D.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Traveliowa.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (579 ms) belongs to the original domain Traveliowa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

735.1 kB

After Optimization

649.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Traveliowa.com main page is 735.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 489.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 44.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 11.5 kB, which is 20% 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 47.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 489.5 kB
  • After minification 487.8 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. Travel Iowa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 142.8 kB
  • After minification 142.8 kB
  • After compression 120.0 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 22.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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. Traveliowa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.4 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (53%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Travel Iowa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

traveliowa.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

traveliowa.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

traveliowa.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Traveliowa.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 Traveliowa.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

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