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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

commonhelp.virginia.gov

Virginia CommonHelp

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

186 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

795 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Commonhelp.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 186 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

commonhelp.virginia.gov performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

commonhelp.virginia.gov

186 ms

ca638d5393.js

66 ms

bootstrap.min.css

99 ms

flip-card.css

58 ms

slick.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Commonhelp.virginia.gov, 12% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Dss.virginia.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) belongs to the original domain Commonhelp.virginia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Commonhelp.virginia.gov main page is 4.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 8.0 kB, which is 22% 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 28.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Common Help Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 288.1 kB
  • After minification 251.9 kB
  • After compression 92.5 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 195.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Commonhelp.virginia.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (32%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Common Help Virginia. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

commonhelp.virginia.gov

commonhelp.virginia.gov

186 ms

ca638d5393.js

ca638d5393.js

66 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

99 ms

flip-card.css

flip-card.css

58 ms

slick.css

slick.css

64 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

73 ms

custom.css

custom.css

96 ms

adrum.js

adrum.js

134 ms

modernizr.custom.2.5.2.js

modernizr.custom.2.5.2.js

84 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

61 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

99 ms

globalValidator.js

globalValidator.js

266 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

70 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

68 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

68 ms

tether.min.js

tether.min.js

69 ms

holder.min.js

holder.min.js

68 ms

element.js

element.js

78 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

140 ms

back-to-top.png

back-to-top.png

57 ms

multi_ethnic_group_GettyImages-1165216191.jpg

multi_ethnic_group_GettyImages-1165216191.jpg

514 ms

CommonHelp-logo_recreated.png

CommonHelp-logo_recreated.png

57 ms

health_icon.png

health_icon.png

56 ms

apply_icon.png

apply_icon.png

104 ms

espanol_icon.png

espanol_icon.png

55 ms

eligibility_icon.png

eligibility_icon.png

71 ms

renew_icon.png

renew_icon.png

104 ms

check_icon.png

check_icon.png

69 ms

changes_icon.png

changes_icon.png

71 ms

office_icon.png

office_icon.png

107 ms

job_icon.png

job_icon.png

104 ms

consumer_gov.png

consumer_gov.png

103 ms

ebt.png

ebt.png

106 ms

VHCF-logo_DIY.png

VHCF-logo_DIY.png

108 ms

voter_registration_DIY.png

voter_registration_DIY.png

104 ms

211_virginia_logo.png

211_virginia_logo.png

298 ms

vdss_logo.png

vdss_logo.png

106 ms

dars_logo.png

dars_logo.png

110 ms

dmas-logo-grayscale_DIY.png

dmas-logo-grayscale_DIY.png

111 ms

dbhds_logo_DIY.png

dbhds_logo_DIY.png

128 ms

dhcd_logo.svg

dhcd_logo.svg

125 ms

social_security_logo_DIY_216px.png

social_security_logo_DIY_216px.png

133 ms

vdh_logo_DIY.png

vdh_logo_DIY.png

133 ms

usda_logo_DIY_216px.png

usda_logo_DIY_216px.png

150 ms

vdss-logo-white.png

vdss-logo-white.png

138 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

63 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

63 ms

ga.js

ga.js

40 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

vita-banner.html

vita-banner.html

41 ms

cov-logo.png

cov-logo.png

32 ms

Accessibility Review

commonhelp.virginia.gov accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

commonhelp.virginia.gov best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

commonhelp.virginia.gov SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Commonhelp.virginia.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 Commonhelp.virginia.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

commonhelp.virginia.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Common Help Virginia. 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: