Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

health.ri.gov

Home: Department of Health

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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About Website

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State of Rhode Island: Department of Health

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Key Findings

We analyzed Health.ri.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.3 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

health.ri.gov performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

health.ri.gov

1485 ms

normalize.css

63 ms

foundation.css

192 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

52 ms

jquery.sidr.dark.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Health.ri.gov, 6% (3 requests) were made to Up.anv.bz and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Health.ri.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 972.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Health.ri.gov main page is 7.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 5.2 kB, which is 15% 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 25.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 209.2 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Health Ri images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 390.0 kB

  • Original 555.6 kB
  • After minification 399.5 kB
  • After compression 165.6 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 390.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 347.0 kB

  • Original 382.0 kB
  • After minification 208.1 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Health.ri.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 347.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (50%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Health Ri. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

health.ri.gov accessibility score

74

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] values are not valid

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

health.ri.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

health.ri.gov SEO score

81

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Health.ri.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 Health.ri.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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