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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

openup.iowa.gov

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Openup.iowa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 1.3 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

openup.iowa.gov performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

openup.iowa.gov

128 ms

openup.iowa.gov

329 ms

styles.css

74 ms

ui.css

112 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Openup.iowa.gov, 6% (1 request) were made to Iowa.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) belongs to the original domain Openup.iowa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

143.2 kB

After Optimization

60.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Openup.iowa.gov main page is 143.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 79.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 1.0 kB, which is 14% 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 5.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 301 B

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 29.5 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. Openup Iowa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 55.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Openup.iowa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (21%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Openup Iowa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

openup.iowa.gov

openup.iowa.gov

128 ms

openup.iowa.gov

openup.iowa.gov

329 ms

styles.css

styles.css

74 ms

ui.css

ui.css

112 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

192 ms

system.js

system.js

179 ms

sliver.js

sliver.js

154 ms

bg.png

bg.png

43 ms

container-bg.png

container-bg.png

51 ms

styles.css

styles.css

83 ms

heading.png

heading.png

273 ms

aasignon.gif

aasignon.gif

51 ms

tintgrad.jpg

tintgrad.jpg

96 ms

grbar.jpg

grbar.jpg

305 ms

orbar.jpg

orbar.jpg

114 ms

print.css

print.css

46 ms

Accessibility Review

openup.iowa.gov accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

openup.iowa.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

openup.iowa.gov SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UNICODE-1-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Openup.iowa.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Openup.iowa.gov main page’s claimed encoding is unicode-1-1. 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

openup.iowa.gov

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