Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

in.gov

IN.gov | The Official Website of the State of Indiana

Page Load Speed

608 ms in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

332 ms

Page Rendered

58 ms

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About Website

Visit in.gov now to see the best up-to-date In content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about in.gov

A State that Works. IN.gov is the official website of the State of Indiana and your place to find information, services, news and events related to Indiana government.

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Key Findings

We analyzed In.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 390 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

in.gov performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.in.gov

218 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to In.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (218 ms) belongs to the original domain In.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.9 MB (37%)

Content Size

13.2 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

In fact, the total size of In.gov main page is 13.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 68 B

  • Original 235 B
  • After minification 200 B
  • After compression 167 B

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 35 B, which is 15% 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 68 B or 29% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 386.7 kB

  • Original 7.0 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. In images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 2.7 MB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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 2.7 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 359.5 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. In.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

in.gov accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

in.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

in.gov SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise In.gov 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 In.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 description is not detected on the main page of In. 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: