Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

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About Website

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Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Illinois’ source for travel and transportation information, and doing business as a contractor in the transportation industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dot.state.il.us page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dot.state.il.us performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dot.state.il.us

113 ms

www.idot.illinois.gov

276 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.9.custom.css

109 ms

Production.css

112 ms

perc_region.css

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dot.state.il.us, 47% (66 requests) were made to Idot.illinois.gov and 14% (19 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (489 ms) relates to the external source Idot.illinois.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 988.1 kB (33%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Dot.state.il.us main page is 3.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 34.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 214.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Dot State needs image optimization as it can save up to 214.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 456.8 kB

  • Original 681.5 kB
  • After minification 680.4 kB
  • After compression 224.7 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 456.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 282.7 kB

  • Original 338.5 kB
  • After minification 312.2 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. Dot.state.il.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 282.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (42%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

76

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dot State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dot.state.il.us SEO score

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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 Dot.state.il.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 Dot.state.il.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 Dot State. 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: