Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

895 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dier.gov.mt page load time and found that the first response time was 895 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dier.gov.mt performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dier.gov.mt

895 ms

VariationRoot.aspx

167 ms

en

139 ms

home.aspx

1341 ms

controls.css

738 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Dier.gov.mt and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Dier.gov.mt.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 533.5 kB (86%)

Content Size

622.3 kB

After Optimization

88.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Dier.gov.mt main page is 622.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 483.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 138.4 kB
  • After minification 121.2 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 17.2 kB, which is 12% 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 113.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 420.3 kB

  • Original 483.9 kB
  • After minification 357.2 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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. Dier.gov.mt needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 420.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (59%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dier.gov.mt accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

dier.gov.mt best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dier.gov.mt SEO score

54

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

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 Dier.gov.mt 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 Dier.gov.mt 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

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