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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

nd.gov

Home | North Dakota State Government - ND Portal

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

726 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nd.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nd.gov performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nd.gov

135 ms

www.nd.gov

566 ms

js

54 ms

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276 ms

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283 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Nd.gov, 5% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (773 ms) belongs to the original domain Nd.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nd.gov main page is 5.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 65.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. ND images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 244 B

  • Original 226.3 kB
  • After minification 226.3 kB
  • After compression 226.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 80.5 kB
  • After compression 76.6 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. Nd.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (51%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ND. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nd.gov

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135 ms

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566 ms

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Accessibility Review

nd.gov accessibility score

86

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

nd.gov best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

nd.gov SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Nd.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 Nd.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

nd.gov

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