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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

townofjefferson.org

Town of Jefferson, North Carolina

Page Load Speed

698 ms in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

453 ms

Page Rendered

141 ms

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About Website

Welcome to townofjefferson.org homepage info - get ready to check Town Of Jefferson best content right away, or after learning these important things about townofjefferson.org

Nestled in the North Carolina High Country of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town of Jefferson is the heart of Ashe County. As the county seat, it is the hub of government, health care and social servi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Townofjefferson.org page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 594 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

townofjefferson.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.5

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

townofjefferson.org

104 ms

style.css

57 ms

superfish.css

60 ms

pagenavi-css.css

61 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Townofjefferson.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) belongs to the original domain Townofjefferson.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

383.8 kB

After Optimization

317.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Townofjefferson.org main page is 383.8 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 289.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.9 kB, which is 22% 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 6.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 924 B

  • Original 289.2 kB
  • After minification 288.3 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. Town Of Jefferson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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 48.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 10.9 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. Townofjefferson.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (24%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Town Of Jefferson. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

townofjefferson.org

townofjefferson.org

104 ms

style.css

style.css

57 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

60 ms

pagenavi-css.css

pagenavi-css.css

61 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

113 ms

hoverintent.js

hoverintent.js

64 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

62 ms

script.js

script.js

128 ms

weatherwidget.js

weatherwidget.js

126 ms

footer_bg.jpg

footer_bg.jpg

91 ms

header_bg.gif

header_bg.gif

57 ms

header_bg.jpg

header_bg.jpg

58 ms

light.jpg

light.jpg

61 ms

headernew98.jpg

headernew98.jpg

142 ms

columns_bg.gif

columns_bg.gif

60 ms

centercol_bg.gif

centercol_bg.gif

62 ms

townhall.jpg

townhall.jpg

197 ms

rightcol_bg.gif

rightcol_bg.gif

113 ms

h3_bg.png

h3_bg.png

115 ms

photobox2.jpg

photobox2.jpg

198 ms

Accessibility Review

townofjefferson.org accessibility score

77

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

townofjefferson.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

townofjefferson.org SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Townofjefferson.org 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 Townofjefferson.org 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

townofjefferson.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Town Of Jefferson. 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: