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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

serve.phila.gov

Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity | Homepage | City of Philadelphia

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

780 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Serve.phila.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

serve.phila.gov performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value71.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value79.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value71.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,180 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value96.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

serve.phila.gov

30 ms

179 ms

gtm.js

103 ms

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183 ms

js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Serve.phila.gov, 62% (36 requests) were made to Phila.gov and 12% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source Translated-endpoints-json.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Serve.phila.gov main page is 1.7 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 77.5 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 19.2 kB, which is 20% 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 80.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Serve Phila images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 378.6 kB
  • After minification 378.6 kB
  • After compression 376.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 159.3 kB
  • After minification 159.3 kB
  • After compression 155.9 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. Serve.phila.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (60%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Serve Phila. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

serve.phila.gov accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

serve.phila.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

serve.phila.gov SEO score

92

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

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 Serve.phila.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 Serve.phila.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 data is detected on the main page of Serve Phila. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: