Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

cityofdenton.com

Denton, TX | Official Website

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

971 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

cityofdenton.com screenshot

About Website

Visit cityofdenton.com now to see the best up-to-date Cityof Denton content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cityofdenton.com

City of Denton, Texas official website. The City of Denton departments provide day-to-day services that are essential to the function, effectiveness, and efficiency of City operations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofdenton.com page load time and found that the first response time was 971 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofdenton.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.339

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityofdenton.com

971 ms

StyleBundleDesignTheme.cssbnd

359 ms

StyleBundleDesignTheme.cssbnd

297 ms

StyleBundleFrontendExtra.cssbnd

224 ms

ScriptBundleFAllInOne.jsbnd

572 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofdenton.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (971 ms) belongs to the original domain Cityofdenton.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 227.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Cityofdenton.com main page is 3.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 103.7 kB
  • After minification 99.0 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 84.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 142.2 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Cityof Denton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 100.8 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 99.3 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 162 B

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Cityofdenton.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (44%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cityof Denton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cityofdenton.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

cityofdenton.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cityofdenton.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cityofdenton.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 Cityofdenton.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 description is not detected on the main page of Cityof Denton. 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: