Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

townsend.delaware.gov

Home - Town of Townsend - New Castle County Delaware

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

649 ms

Resources Loaded

946 ms

Page Rendered

147 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Townsend.delaware.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 649 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

townsend.delaware.gov performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

townsend.delaware.gov

649 ms

bootstrap.min.css

61 ms

style.css

74 ms

font-awesome.min.css

70 ms

css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Townsend.delaware.gov, 14% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (649 ms) belongs to the original domain Townsend.delaware.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 452.6 kB (60%)

Content Size

748.6 kB

After Optimization

296.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Townsend.delaware.gov main page is 748.6 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. Javascripts take 407.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 30.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 118.5 kB
  • After minification 113.2 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. Townsend Delaware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 269.3 kB

  • Original 407.8 kB
  • After minification 405.3 kB
  • After compression 138.5 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 269.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 147.2 kB

  • Original 179.5 kB
  • After minification 171.9 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. Townsend.delaware.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (71%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Townsend Delaware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

townsend.delaware.gov accessibility score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

townsend.delaware.gov SEO score

69

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Townsend.delaware.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 Townsend.delaware.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

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