Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

swrcb.ca.gov

Home Page | California State Water Resources Control Board

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

646 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

swrcb.ca.gov screenshot

About Website

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The State Water Resources Control Board web site covers California water quality and rights regulation, board meetings, laws, funding, watershed management, enforcement, citizen involvement, news and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swrcb.ca.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 646 ms and then it took 2.1 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

swrcb.ca.gov performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.451

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

swrcb.ca.gov

646 ms

www.waterboards.ca.gov

775 ms

navigation.js

13 ms

department.js

10 ms

gatag.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Swrcb.ca.gov, 81% (65 requests) were made to Waterboards.ca.gov and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (775 ms) relates to the external source Waterboards.ca.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

414.2 kB

After Optimization

321.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Swrcb.ca.gov main page is 414.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 283.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 61.6 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 49.3 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.1 kB, which is 32% 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 61.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 283.1 kB
  • After minification 262.6 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. Swrcb Ca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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 5.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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. Swrcb.ca.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (40%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Swrcb Ca. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

swrcb.ca.gov accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

swrcb.ca.gov best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

swrcb.ca.gov SEO score

88

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Swrcb.ca.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 Swrcb.ca.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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