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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

transportation.virginia.gov

Secretary of Transportation - Secretary of Transportation

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

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About Website

Visit transportation.virginia.gov now to see the best up-to-date Transportation Virginia content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about transportation.virginia.gov

Sheppard Miller, III Transportation, Secretary of Transportation, Youngkin, Glenn Youngkin, governor, virginia, va, commonwealth

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Key Findings

We analyzed Transportation.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

transportation.virginia.gov performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.transportation.virginia.gov

226 ms

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62 ms

css

150 ms

css

156 ms

css

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Transportation.virginia.gov, 20% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) relates to the external source Ssl.google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

961.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Transportation.virginia.gov main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 619.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 4.1 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 25.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 613.5 kB
  • After minification 571.9 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. Transportation Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 323.9 kB

  • Original 619.1 kB
  • After minification 619.1 kB
  • After compression 295.2 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 323.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 92.5 kB
  • After minification 92.5 kB
  • After compression 87.8 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. Transportation.virginia.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (75%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Transportation 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.transportation.virginia.gov

www.transportation.virginia.gov

226 ms

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62 ms

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150 ms

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156 ms

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157 ms

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163 ms

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173 ms

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154 ms

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178 ms

moment.js

moment.js

355 ms

jquery1.12.0.min.js

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350 ms

jqueryui1.11.14.min.js

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bootstrap.min.js

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347 ms

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352 ms

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176 ms

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352 ms

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350 ms

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109 ms

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146 ms

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536 ms

VirginiaSealWhite.png

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228 ms

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227 ms

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522 ms

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143 ms

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225 ms

Accessibility Review

transportation.virginia.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

transportation.virginia.gov best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

transportation.virginia.gov SEO score

87

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 Transportation.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 Transportation.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

transportation.virginia.gov

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