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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 63

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

birminghamal.gov

The Official Website for the City of Birmingham, Alabama

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

743 ms

Page Rendered

439 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birminghamal.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 1.2 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

birminghamal.gov performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.088

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.birminghamal.gov

105 ms

style.css

10 ms

responsive.css

10 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

16 ms

jquery.min.js

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Birminghamal.gov, 15% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (242 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.7 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birminghamal.gov main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 33.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.4 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. Birmingham Al images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 92.3 kB

  • Original 245.5 kB
  • After minification 228.8 kB
  • After compression 153.2 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 92.3 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. Birminghamal.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (45%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birmingham Al. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.birminghamal.gov

www.birminghamal.gov

105 ms

style.css

style.css

10 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

10 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

16 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

93 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

16 ms

hoverintent.js

hoverintent.js

14 ms

anystretch.js

anystretch.js

39 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

42 ms

style.css

style.css

41 ms

wp-filebase.css

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41 ms

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41 ms

jscolor.js

jscolor.js

41 ms

element.js

element.js

87 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

41 ms

screen.css

screen.css

39 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

37 ms

css

css

88 ms

css

css

29 ms

print.css

print.css

11 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

25 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

25 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

122 ms

main.js

main.js

211 ms

social-icons.png

social-icons.png

8 ms

logo.png

logo.png

10 ms

icon-arrow-site-menu.png

icon-arrow-site-menu.png

14 ms

logo-print.png

logo-print.png

11 ms

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77 ms

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mayor-message.jpg

197 ms

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mobile-app-rotator.jpg

94 ms

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prev-arrow.png

14 ms

next-arrow.png

next-arrow.png

70 ms

bidding-opportunities.jpg

bidding-opportunities.jpg

71 ms

mayor-office.jpg

mayor-office.jpg

71 ms

council-meeting.jpg

council-meeting.jpg

72 ms

bham-forward.jpg

bham-forward.jpg

73 ms

attractions.jpg

attractions.jpg

76 ms

city-directory1.jpg

city-directory1.jpg

74 ms

e-services.jpg

e-services.jpg

77 ms

311.jpg

311.jpg

76 ms

newsroom.jpg

newsroom.jpg

79 ms

ada-logo.png

ada-logo.png

78 ms

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Accessibility Review

birminghamal.gov accessibility score

82

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.

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

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

birminghamal.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

birminghamal.gov SEO score

63

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Birminghamal.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 Birminghamal.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

birminghamal.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Birmingham Al. 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: