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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

capitalert.gov

Fairfax County Homepage | Fairfax County

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Fairfax County, Virginia - Fairfax County Government, Virginia

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capitalert.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 25 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capitalert.gov performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

capitalert.gov

25 ms

www.fairfaxcounty.gov

54 ms

js

82 ms

css_AE1q67Fhk_Lstdheo6cEMzK6BFdeQgpg7fGiiFq0vVc.css

28 ms

css_CDAsRD-Li6E0rkDHrg718XBJ_60HhDIAjHVWG89pLDk.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Capitalert.gov, 40% (12 requests) were made to Fairfaxcounty.gov and 20% (6 requests) were made to T3.phplivesupport.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (823 ms) relates to the external source Fairfaxcounty.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (8%)

Content Size

14.8 MB

After Optimization

13.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Capitalert.gov main page is 14.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 116.5 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 106.9 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 30.9 kB, which is 22% 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 116.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 65.3 kB

  • Original 13.1 MB
  • After minification 13.0 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. Capitalert images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 856.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 342.4 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 856.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 107.7 kB

  • Original 343.1 kB
  • After minification 343.1 kB
  • After compression 235.4 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. Capitalert.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 107.7 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (52%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Capitalert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

capitalert.gov

capitalert.gov

25 ms

www.fairfaxcounty.gov

www.fairfaxcounty.gov

54 ms

js

js

82 ms

css_AE1q67Fhk_Lstdheo6cEMzK6BFdeQgpg7fGiiFq0vVc.css

css_AE1q67Fhk_Lstdheo6cEMzK6BFdeQgpg7fGiiFq0vVc.css

28 ms

css_CDAsRD-Li6E0rkDHrg718XBJ_60HhDIAjHVWG89pLDk.css

css_CDAsRD-Li6E0rkDHrg718XBJ_60HhDIAjHVWG89pLDk.css

105 ms

js_ySNslxl63vg1M4gp6_7S_mGkyNSLZw0jcR8yfy8osfg.js

js_ySNslxl63vg1M4gp6_7S_mGkyNSLZw0jcR8yfy8osfg.js

98 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

55 ms

js_3EDnhmuB5_Ia_LhQRRmHDOwa3WTNGKd9vlSYo16OROQ.js

js_3EDnhmuB5_Ia_LhQRRmHDOwa3WTNGKd9vlSYo16OROQ.js

41 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

54 ms

js_5d3gfcq74zu8VKgpHlG2wRzLulwg2-W-QTPDSpFVP5k.js

js_5d3gfcq74zu8VKgpHlG2wRzLulwg2-W-QTPDSpFVP5k.js

53 ms

css2

css2

60 ms

7318.js

7318.js

66 ms

86791fe593.js

86791fe593.js

178 ms

element.js

element.js

93 ms

calendar-widget.js

calendar-widget.js

36 ms

siteanalyze_6294748.js

siteanalyze_6294748.js

62 ms

ffxlogo_print.jpg

ffxlogo_print.jpg

36 ms

phplive_v2.js.php

phplive_v2.js.php

74 ms

fairfaxlogo.png

fairfaxlogo.png

233 ms

BOS-2024-2027-group.jpg

BOS-2024-2027-group.jpg

823 ms

veteran-with-flag.png

veteran-with-flag.png

240 ms

seal.png

seal.png

143 ms

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLGT9V1hvEv-L.woff

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLGT9V1hvEv-L.woff

25 ms

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJPUdVNF.woff

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJPUdVNF.woff

37 ms

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7V1hvEv-L.woff

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7V1hvEv-L.woff

38 ms

phplive.js

phplive.js

16 ms

framework.js

framework.js

16 ms

footprints.php

footprints.php

43 ms

status.php

status.php

12 ms

icon_offline_0.PNG

icon_offline_0.PNG

8 ms

Accessibility Review

capitalert.gov accessibility score

93

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

capitalert.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

capitalert.gov SEO score

86

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

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 Capitalert.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 Capitalert.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

capitalert.gov

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