Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

covington.va.us

Home - Covington City

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

355 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Covington.va.us page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.4 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

covington.va.us performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,470 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

covington.va.us

1523 ms

modal.css

114 ms

style.css

132 ms

menu.min.css

134 ms

menu.fix.css

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Covington.va.us, 12% (13 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Covington.va.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Covington.va.us main page is 2.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 80.9 kB
  • After minification 74.8 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 67.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 487.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 804.2 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, Covington needs image optimization as it can save up to 487.7 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 770.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 353.6 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 770.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.4 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Covington.va.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (63%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Covington. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

covington.va.us accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

covington.va.us 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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

covington.va.us 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Covington.va.us 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 Covington.va.us 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 Covington. 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: