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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ethics.maryland.gov

State Ethics Commission

Page Load Speed

649 ms in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

414 ms

Page Rendered

140 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ethics.maryland.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 554 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

ethics.maryland.gov performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ethics.maryland.gov

95 ms

bootstrap.min.css

25 ms

agency-styles.css

68 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

92 ms

yui-min.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Ethics.maryland.gov, 5% (2 requests) were made to Maryland.gov and 5% (2 requests) were made to Doit.maryland.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) belongs to the original domain Ethics.maryland.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 655.3 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

953.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ethics.maryland.gov main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 763.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 5.4 kB, which is 11% 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 39.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 763.2 kB
  • After minification 734.3 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. Ethics Maryland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 409.8 kB

  • Original 589.4 kB
  • After minification 541.5 kB
  • After compression 179.5 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 409.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 177.4 kB

  • Original 205.4 kB
  • After minification 179.8 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Ethics.maryland.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (44%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ethics Maryland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ethics.maryland.gov

ethics.maryland.gov

95 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

25 ms

agency-styles.css

agency-styles.css

68 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

92 ms

yui-min.js

yui-min.js

113 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.min.css

jquery-ui-1.10.3.min.css

118 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.min.js

114 ms

mdgov_responsiveTables.js

mdgov_responsiveTables.js

37 ms

MDAlertCode.js

MDAlertCode.js

100 ms

base.js

base.js

113 ms

mdgov_responsiveTables.css

mdgov_responsiveTables.css

111 ms

js

js

63 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

116 ms

agencyalert-style.css

agencyalert-style.css

169 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

170 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

168 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

169 ms

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govLtGov-v3.png

52 ms

phone.png

phone.png

92 ms

GetAlert

GetAlert

73 ms

text.png

text.png

63 ms

bodyBG.gif

bodyBG.gif

32 ms

glyphicons-halflings-white.png

glyphicons-halflings-white.png

32 ms

agencyHeaderBg-generic.jpg

agencyHeaderBg-generic.jpg

40 ms

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bgBlack65.png

31 ms

MDgov_Crown_Logo.png

MDgov_Crown_Logo.png

33 ms

AGENCY_TITLE.png

AGENCY_TITLE.png

33 ms

search.png

search.png

60 ms

nav_sprite.png

nav_sprite.png

60 ms

Local-Government-300x245.png

Local-Government-300x245.png

63 ms

Liquor-Board-Final-300x247.png

Liquor-Board-Final-300x247.png

64 ms

State-Employee-Training.jpg

State-Employee-Training.jpg

65 ms

State-Ethics-Commission2.jpg

State-Ethics-Commission2.jpg

63 ms

Forms.png

Forms.png

66 ms

Memos.png

Memos.png

67 ms

Training.png

Training.png

67 ms

statewideNavigationDefer2017.js

statewideNavigationDefer2017.js

16 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

2016-MIP-logo-450x182.png

2016-MIP-logo-450x182.png

37 ms

Accessibility Review

ethics.maryland.gov accessibility score

83

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

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

ethics.maryland.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

ethics.maryland.gov SEO score

82

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ethics.maryland.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 Ethics.maryland.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

ethics.maryland.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ethics Maryland. 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: