Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

osa.state.mn.us

Office of the Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha | Office of the State Auditor (OSA)

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

835 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Osa.state.mn.us page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 967 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

osa.state.mn.us performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

osa.state.mn.us

88 ms

webacc

313 ms

branding-min.css

109 ms

gwstyle-min.css

251 ms

images-min.css

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Osa.state.mn.us, 96% (25 requests) were made to Webmail.osa.state.mn.us. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) relates to the external source Webmail.osa.state.mn.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.7 kB (67%)

Content Size

156.1 kB

After Optimization

51.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Osa.state.mn.us main page is 156.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 111.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 21.1 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 14.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 622 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 22.5 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. OSA State images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 89.1 kB

  • Original 111.9 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. Osa.state.mn.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (64%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

4

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

Accessibility Review

osa.state.mn.us accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

osa.state.mn.us best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

osa.state.mn.us SEO score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Osa.state.mn.us 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 Osa.state.mn.us main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of OSA State. 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: