Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

portlandoregon.gov

City of Portland, Oregon | Portland.gov

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

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The official website of the City of Portland, Oregon.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Portlandoregon.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 305 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

portlandoregon.gov performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.portlandoregon.gov

305 ms

main.css

199 ms

custom.css

217 ms

flexslider.css

141 ms

flexslider-helper.css

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Portlandoregon.gov, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) belongs to the original domain Portlandoregon.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 293.8 kB (48%)

Content Size

615.0 kB

After Optimization

321.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Portlandoregon.gov main page is 615.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 229.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 7.2 kB, which is 17% 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 33.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 229.9 kB
  • After minification 207.7 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. Portland Oregon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 205.8 kB
  • After minification 162.7 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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 124.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 113.6 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 103.5 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. Portlandoregon.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (59%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Portland Oregon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

portlandoregon.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

portlandoregon.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

SEO Factors

portlandoregon.gov SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Portlandoregon.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 Portlandoregon.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 Portland Oregon. 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: