Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

biz.loudoun.gov

Loudoun County Economic Development, Virginia

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

232 ms

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About Website

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Loudoun Economic Development is dedicated to recruiting new business, growing our existing industries and improving our county's business climate.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biz.loudoun.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

biz.loudoun.gov performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

biz.loudoun.gov

84 ms

biz.loudoun.gov

1548 ms

414845508.css

49 ms

-1795492207.js

67 ms

1127434005.js

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Biz.loudoun.gov, 6% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Biz.loudoun.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 493.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Biz.loudoun.gov main page is 2.6 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 46.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Biz Loudoun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 352.3 kB

  • Original 547.5 kB
  • After minification 419.6 kB
  • After compression 195.1 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 352.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Biz.loudoun.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (36%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Biz Loudoun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

biz.loudoun.gov accessibility score

72

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

biz.loudoun.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

biz.loudoun.gov SEO score

79

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

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 Biz.loudoun.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 Biz.loudoun.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 Biz Loudoun. 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: