Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

pocatello.us

City of Pocatello | Official Website

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Pocatello, Idaho - The official website for the City of Pocatello offers job listings, recreation opportunities, utility bill pay, meeting agendas, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pocatello.us page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pocatello.us performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pocatello.us

96 ms

pocatello.gov

96 ms

pocatello.gov

698 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

gtm.js

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pocatello.us, 83% (49 requests) were made to Pocatello.gov and 7% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Pocatello.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 264.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

785.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Pocatello.us main page is 1.1 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. Images take 618.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 231.6 kB

  • Original 281.6 kB
  • After minification 265.9 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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 231.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 618.2 kB
  • After minification 615.4 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. Pocatello images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 142.4 kB
  • After minification 142.3 kB
  • After compression 114.5 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 27.9 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Pocatello.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (57%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pocatello. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pocatello.us accessibility score

71

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

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

pocatello.us 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pocatello.us SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Pocatello.us 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 Pocatello.us 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 Pocatello. 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: