Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

vanderburghgov.org

Welcome to Evansville and Vanderburgh County / City of Evansville - Vanderburgh County

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

vanderburghgov.org screenshot

About Website

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The official website of the City of Evansville, Indiana and Vanderburgh County, Indiana.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vanderburghgov.org page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vanderburghgov.org performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vanderburghgov.org

90 ms

vanderburghgov.org

6898 ms

styles.css

35 ms

top-nav.css

76 ms

font-awesome.min.css

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Vanderburghgov.org, 16% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Vanderburghgov.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Vanderburghgov.org main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 9.3 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 1.7 kB, which is 16% 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 8.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Vanderburgh Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 168.3 kB
  • After minification 168.3 kB
  • After compression 144.3 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 24.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. Vanderburghgov.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.6 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vanderburgh Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vanderburghgov.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

vanderburghgov.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

vanderburghgov.org SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vanderburghgov.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 Vanderburghgov.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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