Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

chestervt.gov

WELCOME TO CHESTER - Home

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

527 ms

chestervt.gov screenshot

About Website

Welcome to chestervt.gov homepage info - get ready to check CHESTER Vt best content right away, or after learning these important things about chestervt.gov

This is the official site for the town of Chester, Vermont.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chestervt.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chestervt.gov performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.237

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chestervt.gov

133 ms

www.chestervt.gov

138 ms

www.chestervt.gov

160 ms

sites.css

20 ms

fancybox.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Chestervt.gov, 49% (31 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) belongs to the original domain Chestervt.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Chestervt.gov main page is 3.6 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 85.2 kB
  • After minification 82.8 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 69.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. CHESTER Vt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 745 B

  • Original 508.6 kB
  • After minification 508.6 kB
  • After compression 507.8 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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. Chestervt.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (40%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CHESTER Vt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chestervt.gov accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

chestervt.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

SEO Factors

chestervt.gov SEO score

75

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 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 Chestervt.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 Chestervt.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 CHESTER Vt. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: