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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

townhall.virginia.gov

Virginia Regulatory Town Hall Home Page

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

411 ms

Resources Loaded

492 ms

Page Rendered

102 ms

townhall.virginia.gov screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Town Hall Virginia content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about townhall.virginia.gov

A source of information about regulatory changes under consideration in Virginia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Townhall.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 411 ms and then it took 594 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

townhall.virginia.gov performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

townhall.virginia.gov

411 ms

styles.css

23 ms

virginiasmlogo.jpg

34 ms

townhalllogo.gif

34 ms

MagnifyGlassSearch.gif

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Townhall.virginia.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (411 ms) belongs to the original domain Townhall.virginia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.7 kB (54%)

Content Size

100.2 kB

After Optimization

46.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Townhall.virginia.gov main page is 100.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 72.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 1.2 kB, which is 13% 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 6.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 41.1 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, Town Hall Virginia needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.2 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Townhall.virginia.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Town Hall Virginia. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

townhall.virginia.gov

townhall.virginia.gov

411 ms

styles.css

styles.css

23 ms

virginiasmlogo.jpg

virginiasmlogo.jpg

34 ms

townhalllogo.gif

townhalllogo.gif

34 ms

MagnifyGlassSearch.gif

MagnifyGlassSearch.gif

15 ms

searchtownhalltop.gif

searchtownhalltop.gif

32 ms

redsquare.gif

redsquare.gif

28 ms

bgsm1.jpg

bgsm1.jpg

10 ms

logintop.jpg

logintop.jpg

15 ms

columnsmiddle.jpg

columnsmiddle.jpg

26 ms

blankArrowLeft.jpg

blankArrowLeft.jpg

9 ms

leftcolumnbottom.jpg

leftcolumnbottom.jpg

24 ms

print.css

print.css

9 ms

Accessibility Review

townhall.virginia.gov accessibility score

50

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

townhall.virginia.gov best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

townhall.virginia.gov SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Townhall.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 Townhall.virginia.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

townhall.virginia.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Town Hall 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: