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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

rco.wa.gov

RCO Home Page - RCO Recreation and Conservation Office Home Page

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

282 ms

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About Website

Welcome to rco.wa.gov homepage info - get ready to check RCO Wa best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about rco.wa.gov

The Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) manages grant programs to create outdoor recreation opportunities, protect wildlife habitat and working farms and forests, and help recover salmon.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rco.wa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 2.8 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

rco.wa.gov performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rco.wa.gov

264 ms

global.css

88 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

337 ms

main.css

130 ms

home_leftnav.css

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Rco.wa.gov, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Rco.wa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rco.wa.gov main page is 1.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 2.0 kB, which is 19% 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 7.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. RCO Wa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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 37.7 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Rco.wa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (44%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RCO Wa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rco.wa.gov

rco.wa.gov

264 ms

global.css

global.css

88 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

337 ms

main.css

main.css

130 ms

home_leftnav.css

home_leftnav.css

175 ms

sub_mainnav.css

sub_mainnav.css

172 ms

sub_leftnav.css

sub_leftnav.css

176 ms

user.css

user.css

190 ms

footer.css

footer.css

230 ms

cluetip.css

cluetip.css

275 ms

ga.js

ga.js

35 ms

outer_wrapper_top.jpg

outer_wrapper_top.jpg

87 ms

wrapper_bg.jpg

wrapper_bg.jpg

186 ms

rco_logo.jpg

rco_logo.jpg

240 ms

searchBoxLeftEdge.gif

searchBoxLeftEdge.gif

84 ms

searchBoxBG.gif

searchBoxBG.gif

86 ms

searchGo.gif

searchGo.gif

96 ms

home_content_bottom.jpg

home_content_bottom.jpg

263 ms

homePhoto4.jpg

homePhoto4.jpg

1684 ms

homePhoto5.jpg

homePhoto5.jpg

1643 ms

homePhoto6.jpg

homePhoto6.jpg

1736 ms

homePhoto2.jpg

homePhoto2.jpg

1458 ms

homePhoto7.jpg

homePhoto7.jpg

1389 ms

homePhoto3.jpg

homePhoto3.jpg

1429 ms

menu5.gif

menu5.gif

1479 ms

home_bullet.gif

home_bullet.gif

1514 ms

menu14.gif

menu14.gif

1573 ms

box_border.gif

box_border.gif

1560 ms

FB-f-Logo__blue_29.png

FB-f-Logo__blue_29.png

1608 ms

yt-brand-yt-stackedlogo.png

yt-brand-yt-stackedlogo.png

1672 ms

home_prefooter.jpg

home_prefooter.jpg

1685 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

print.css

print.css

85 ms

Accessibility Review

rco.wa.gov accessibility score

93

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

rco.wa.gov best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rco.wa.gov SEO score

79

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rco.wa.gov 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 Rco.wa.gov 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

rco.wa.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of RCO Wa. 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: