Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

legacy.pa.gov

PA.GOV | The Official Website for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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About Website

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The official website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Find information and services from Pennsylvania state government agencies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Legacy.pa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

legacy.pa.gov performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

legacy.pa.gov

261 ms

default.aspx

346 ms

custom.modernizr.js

121 ms

init.js

200 ms

jquery.js

280 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Legacy.pa.gov, 12% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (408 ms) belongs to the original domain Legacy.pa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (67%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

674.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Legacy.pa.gov main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 100.0 kB
  • After minification 92.3 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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. 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 72.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 189.0 kB
  • After minification 187.2 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. Legacy PA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 961.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 401.0 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 961.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 346.2 kB

  • Original 405.0 kB
  • After minification 294.0 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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. Legacy.pa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 346.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (68%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Legacy PA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

legacy.pa.gov accessibility score

91

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

legacy.pa.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

legacy.pa.gov SEO score

90

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 Legacy.pa.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 Legacy.pa.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 Legacy PA. 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: