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vote.michigan.gov

Michigan Voter Information Center

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

817 ms

Page Rendered

153 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vote.michigan.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 970 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vote.michigan.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

vote.michigan.gov

213 ms

MVIC

41 ms

132 ms

SOSBlue.css

79 ms

SOSGray.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Vote.michigan.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (213 ms) belongs to the original domain Vote.michigan.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

121.4 kB

After Optimization

53.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Vote.michigan.gov main page is 121.4 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 56.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 15.0 kB, which is 42% 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 30.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 42.8 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. Obviously, Vote Michigan needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 18.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 6.9 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Vote.michigan.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (21%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vote Michigan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Vote.michigan.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 Vote.michigan.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 Vote Michigan. 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: