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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

799 ms

Page Rendered

651 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Research.fairfaxcounty.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 1.5 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

research.fairfaxcounty.gov performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.334

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

research.fairfaxcounty.gov

103 ms

research.fairfaxcounty.gov

171 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

24 ms

font-awesome.min.css

35 ms

lg-public.min.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Research.fairfaxcounty.gov, 30% (7 requests) were made to Libapps.s3.amazonaws.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (272 ms) relates to the external source V2.libanswers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 305.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Research.fairfaxcounty.gov main page is 2.0 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 30.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Research Fairfax County images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 70.5 kB

  • Original 128.5 kB
  • After minification 127.6 kB
  • After compression 58.0 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 70.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 170.3 kB

  • Original 208.4 kB
  • After minification 208.4 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Research.fairfaxcounty.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 170.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (45%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Research Fairfax County. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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103 ms

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171 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

24 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

35 ms

lg-public.min.css

lg-public.min.css

105 ms

1.12.1_jquery.min.js

1.12.1_jquery.min.js

148 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

197 ms

lg-public.min.js

lg-public.min.js

191 ms

css

css

267 ms

sa.min.js

sa.min.js

144 ms

load_chat.php

load_chat.php

272 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

157 ms

fairfaxlogo.png

fairfaxlogo.png

187 ms

profile.jpg

profile.jpg

186 ms

cropped.jpg

cropped.jpg

212 ms

profile-pic-erin.jpg

profile-pic-erin.jpg

253 ms

LinkedinPhoto.jpg

LinkedinPhoto.jpg

250 ms

fcpl-logo-222x100.png

fcpl-logo-222x100.png

186 ms

fairfaxseal-200.png

fairfaxseal-200.png

208 ms

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JTUSjIg1_i6t8kCHKm459Wlhzg.ttf

183 ms

widgets.php

widgets.php

206 ms

widget_status

widget_status

158 ms

collect

collect

36 ms

Accessibility Review

research.fairfaxcounty.gov accessibility score

92

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

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

research.fairfaxcounty.gov best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

research.fairfaxcounty.gov SEO score

83

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

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 Research.fairfaxcounty.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 Research.fairfaxcounty.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Research Fairfax County. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: