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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

spotlight.vermont.gov

Home Page | SPOTLIGHT on Financial Transparency

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

602 ms

Page Rendered

288 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spotlight.vermont.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 890 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spotlight.vermont.gov performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spotlight.vermont.gov

140 ms

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50 ms

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90 ms

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65 ms

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93 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Spotlight.vermont.gov, 15% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) belongs to the original domain Spotlight.vermont.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.4 kB (46%)

Content Size

556.2 kB

After Optimization

299.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spotlight.vermont.gov main page is 556.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 284.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 23.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 173.6 kB
  • After minification 132.3 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. Obviously, SPOTLIGHT Vermont needs image optimization as it can save up to 41.4 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 141.7 kB

  • Original 284.5 kB
  • After minification 265.5 kB
  • After compression 142.9 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 141.7 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. Spotlight.vermont.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SPOTLIGHT Vermont. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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140 ms

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50 ms

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90 ms

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65 ms

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93 ms

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142 ms

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66 ms

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73 ms

element.js

element.js

34 ms

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107 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

97 ms

main.js

main.js

122 ms

logo.png

logo.png

87 ms

search-button.png

search-button.png

78 ms

spotlight_logoWEB.jpg

spotlight_logoWEB.jpg

87 ms

Accounting_image_lg.jpg

Accounting_image_lg.jpg

85 ms

delicious.png

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79 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

78 ms

google.png

google.png

85 ms

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85 ms

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85 ms

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123 ms

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124 ms

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118 ms

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144 ms

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234 ms

footer.png

footer.png

120 ms

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collect

20 ms

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element_main.js

39 ms

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55 ms

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48 ms

cleardot.gif

cleardot.gif

72 ms

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te_ctrl3.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

spotlight.vermont.gov accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

spotlight.vermont.gov best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

spotlight.vermont.gov SEO score

82

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

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 Spotlight.vermont.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 Spotlight.vermont.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

spotlight.vermont.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SPOTLIGHT Vermont. 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: