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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

data.ct.gov

Connecticut | Open Data | Connecticut Data

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Data.ct.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

data.ct.gov performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value22.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,770 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

data.ct.gov

68 ms

data.ct.gov

418 ms

jquery.min.js

25 ms

ua-parser.min.js

23 ms

vendor.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Data.ct.gov, 54% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.socrata.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (427 ms) belongs to the original domain Data.ct.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 581.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Data.ct.gov main page is 4.5 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. 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. Javascripts take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 568.4 kB

  • Original 771.8 kB
  • After minification 770.1 kB
  • After compression 203.4 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 568.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 122.6 kB
  • After minification 113.0 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. Data Ct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 798 B

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB
  • After compression 3.5 MB

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 2.1 kB

  • Original 94.0 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 91.9 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. Data.ct.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (88%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Data Ct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

data.ct.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

data.ct.gov 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

SEO Factors

data.ct.gov SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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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 Data.ct.gov 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 Data.ct.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 Data Ct. 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: