Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

aacpl.net

Homepage | Anne Arundel County Public Library

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

810 ms

Page Rendered

414 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aacpl.net page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.2 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

aacpl.net performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aacpl.net

29 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

12 ms

align.module.css

19 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

19 ms

fieldgroup.module.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Aacpl.net, 9% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 9% (10 requests) were made to Aacpl.aspendiscovery.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (336 ms) relates to the external source Aacpl.aspendiscovery.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Aacpl.net main page is 5.7 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 104.1 kB

  • Original 118.9 kB
  • After minification 95.0 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 23.9 kB, which is 20% 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 104.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 626.9 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Obviously, Aacpl needs image optimization as it can save up to 626.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 107.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 93.6 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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. Aacpl.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (63%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aacpl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aacpl.net accessibility score

95

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

aacpl.net best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

aacpl.net SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Aacpl.net 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 Aacpl.net 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 Aacpl. 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: