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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

houstontranstar.org

Houston TranStar - Greater Houston Transportation and Emergency Management Center

Page Load Speed

913 ms in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

446 ms

Page Rendered

237 ms

houstontranstar.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houstontranstar.org page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 683 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houstontranstar.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houstontranstar.org

230 ms

template1_style_sheet.css

85 ms

sh99_toll_25x24.gif

88 ms

topnav2_negative_gradient.gif

88 ms

transtar_logo_text_negative_16.gif

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Houstontranstar.org, 16% (3 requests) were made to Traffic.houstontranstar.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (230 ms) belongs to the original domain Houstontranstar.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

62.7 kB

After Optimization

40.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houstontranstar.org main page is 62.7 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 35.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 16.8 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 5.1 kB, which is 23% 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 17.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 593 B

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 35.2 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. Houston Tran Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 398 B

  • Original 763 B
  • After minification 695 B
  • After compression 365 B

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 398 B or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 615 B

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. Houstontranstar.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (33%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houston Tran Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

houstontranstar.org

houstontranstar.org

230 ms

template1_style_sheet.css

template1_style_sheet.css

85 ms

sh99_toll_25x24.gif

sh99_toll_25x24.gif

88 ms

topnav2_negative_gradient.gif

topnav2_negative_gradient.gif

88 ms

transtar_logo_text_negative_16.gif

transtar_logo_text_negative_16.gif

87 ms

transtar_intro3.jpg

transtar_intro3.jpg

172 ms

intro_text.gif

intro_text.gif

82 ms

digital_govt_award_2011.gif

digital_govt_award_2011.gif

83 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

80 ms

pda_legend.gif

pda_legend.gif

116 ms

rss-icon.gif

rss-icon.gif

64 ms

twitter-icon.gif

twitter-icon.gif

91 ms

itsamerica_award.png

itsamerica_award.png

90 ms

one_pixel_image.gif

one_pixel_image.gif

90 ms

footer.js

footer.js

67 ms

youtube_icon.png

youtube_icon.png

66 ms

facebook_icon.gif

facebook_icon.gif

65 ms

blue-gradient-30x1.gif

blue-gradient-30x1.gif

59 ms

harris_all_pda_new_layer_speed.gif

harris_all_pda_new_layer_speed.gif

91 ms

Accessibility Review

houstontranstar.org accessibility score

76

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

houstontranstar.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

houstontranstar.org SEO score

74

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houstontranstar.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Houstontranstar.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

houstontranstar.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Houston Tran Star. 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: