Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

vlacd.org

Home | Valparaiso Lakes Area Conservancy District

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

882 ms

Page Rendered

503 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the Official Website of Valparaiso Lakes Area Conservancy District in Valparaiso, IN!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vlacd.org page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 1.4 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

vlacd.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vlacd.org

74 ms

vlacd.org

222 ms

css

79 ms

fontawesome.min.css

65 ms

all.min.css

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Vlacd.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (222 ms) belongs to the original domain Vlacd.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 172.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Vlacd.org main page is 2.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 18% 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 27.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 141.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Vlacd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 337.6 kB
  • After minification 337.6 kB
  • After compression 335.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 607 B

  • Original 180.8 kB
  • After minification 180.8 kB
  • After compression 180.2 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. Vlacd.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (39%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vlacd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vlacd.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

vlacd.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

vlacd.org SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vlacd.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Vlacd.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 data is detected on the main page of Vlacd. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: