Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

watertown-ny.gov

City of Watertown, New York - Home Page

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

561 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watertown-ny.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 561 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watertown-ny.gov performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.684

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watertown-ny.gov

561 ms

common.css

60 ms

GlobalJSFunctionsDetail.js

118 ms

autocomplete.js

61 ms

MouseOverMenuFloatingStatic.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Watertown-ny.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (608 ms) belongs to the original domain Watertown-ny.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

349.3 kB

After Optimization

222.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Watertown-ny.gov main page is 349.3 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 198.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 33.4 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. 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 28.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 198.7 kB
  • After minification 191.4 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. Watertown Ny images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 74.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Watertown-ny.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (43%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watertown Ny. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

watertown-ny.gov accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

watertown-ny.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

watertown-ny.gov SEO score

73

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Watertown-ny.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Watertown-ny.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Watertown Ny. 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: