Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

cityofsitka.org

The City & Borough of Sitka Alaska - home

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofsitka.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofsitka.org performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,860 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.709

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityofsitka.org

1109 ms

www.cityofsitka.com

24 ms

www.cityofsitka.com

291 ms

js

95 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cityofsitka.org, 19% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 19% (11 requests) were made to Cityofsitka.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cityofsitka.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

942.1 kB

After Optimization

822.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Cityofsitka.org main page is 942.1 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. 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 495.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 53.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 61.3 kB

  • Original 495.9 kB
  • After minification 434.5 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. Obviously, City Of Sitka needs image optimization as it can save up to 61.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 265.6 kB
  • After minification 265.6 kB
  • After compression 262.8 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 112.5 kB
  • After compression 110.1 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. Cityofsitka.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (62%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Of Sitka. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cityofsitka.org accessibility score

84

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cityofsitka.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cityofsitka.org SEO score

65

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Cityofsitka.org 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 Cityofsitka.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 description is not detected on the main page of City Of Sitka. 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: