Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

covid19.alaska.gov

COVID-19 in Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

530 ms

Resources Loaded

954 ms

Page Rendered

70 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Covid19.alaska.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 530 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

covid19.alaska.gov performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,950 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

default.aspx

530 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Covid19.alaska.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (530 ms) relates to the external source Health.alaska.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Covid19.alaska.gov main page is 2.3 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 415 B
  • After minification 413 B
  • After compression 247 B

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 168 B or 40% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 618.6 kB
  • After minification 542.4 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, COVID 19 Alaska needs image optimization as it can save up to 76.2 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

-67%

Potential reduce by 766.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 379.5 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 766.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 247.2 kB

  • Original 506.5 kB
  • After minification 426.0 kB
  • After compression 259.4 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. Covid19.alaska.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.2 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

covid19.alaska.gov accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

covid19.alaska.gov best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

covid19.alaska.gov SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Covid19.alaska.gov 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 Covid19.alaska.gov 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 COVID 19 Alaska. 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: