Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

patreasury.gov

Pennsylvania Treasury, Stacy Garrity - State Treasurer

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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About Website

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The Pennsylvania Office of the State Treasurer serves as the custodian of more than $100 billion in Commonwealth funds, and is responsible for the receipt and deposit of state monies, investment manag...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Patreasury.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

patreasury.gov performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value43.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

patreasury.gov

113 ms

bootstrap.css

80 ms

element.js

51 ms

jquery.js

139 ms

bootstrap.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Patreasury.gov, 16% (8 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Patreasury.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 813.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

10.2 MB

After Optimization

9.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Patreasury.gov main page is 10.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 14.6 kB, which is 30% 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 40.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 235.3 kB

  • Original 9.4 MB
  • After minification 9.2 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. Pa Treasury images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 406.4 kB

  • Original 595.9 kB
  • After minification 427.4 kB
  • After compression 189.5 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 406.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 131.9 kB

  • Original 155.9 kB
  • After minification 129.7 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. Patreasury.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (42%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pa Treasury. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

patreasury.gov accessibility score

78

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

patreasury.gov best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

patreasury.gov SEO score

74

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

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 Patreasury.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 Patreasury.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 Pa Treasury. 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: