Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

delawareworks.com

State of Delaware - Delaware Works

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

570 ms

Page Rendered

393 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to Delaware Works from the State of Delaware's Department of Labor. Delaware Works is committed to helping job seekers find employment and services they need to succeed.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Delawareworks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 963 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

delawareworks.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.386

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

delawareworks.com

87 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.js

44 ms

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

80 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

42 ms

bootstrap.js

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Delawareworks.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (195 ms) belongs to the original domain Delawareworks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 601.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Delawareworks.com main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 7.8 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 33.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Delaware Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 232.8 kB

  • Original 332.5 kB
  • After minification 269.9 kB
  • After compression 99.7 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 232.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 324.3 kB

  • Original 355.4 kB
  • After minification 225.9 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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. Delawareworks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 324.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Delaware Works. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

delawareworks.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

delawareworks.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

SEO Factors

delawareworks.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Delawareworks.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 Delawareworks.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 Delaware Works. 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: