Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ga.gov

Georgia.gov

Page Load Speed

25.5 sec in total

First Response

139 ms

Resources Loaded

14.8 sec

Page Rendered

10.5 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ga content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ga.gov

The official website of the state of Georgia. A gateway to agencies, services, forms, and other information for citizens and business people.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ga.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 139 ms and then it took 25.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ga.gov performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ga.gov

139 ms

georgia.gov

63 ms

georgia.gov

1187 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

330 ms

css_1kF33EODTO5gDyEbdpAfYzMKbjG3ottD1s5np0BNI8U.css

400 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ga.gov, 76% (38 requests) were made to Georgia.gov and 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ga.gov main page is 2.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 923.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 38.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 923.6 kB
  • After minification 858.6 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. Ga images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 563.1 kB

  • Original 827.1 kB
  • After minification 750.6 kB
  • After compression 264.0 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 563.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 356.3 kB

  • Original 414.6 kB
  • After minification 401.7 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. Ga.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 356.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (60%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ga. 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

ga.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ga.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ga.gov SEO score

86

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

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

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 Ga.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 Ga.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 Ga. 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: