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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

carrboropolice.org

Police Department | Carrboro, NC - Official Website

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

431 ms

About Website

Visit carrboropolice.org now to see the best up-to-date Carrboro Police content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about carrboropolice.org

The Police Department protects people and property by providing law enforcement and community services necessary to maintain a safe living environment within the town.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carrboropolice.org page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carrboropolice.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.411

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carrboropolice.org

120 ms

Police

375 ms

gtm.js

52 ms

antiforgery

91 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Carrboropolice.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Az416426.vo.msecnd.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Carrboropolice.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

688.9 kB

After Optimization

538.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carrboropolice.org main page is 688.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 431.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 157.0 kB
  • After minification 149.1 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 128.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 431.1 kB
  • After minification 419.4 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. Carrboro Police images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 92.7 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Carrboropolice.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (46%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carrboro Police. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

carrboropolice.org accessibility score

89

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

carrboropolice.org best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

carrboropolice.org SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carrboropolice.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 Carrboropolice.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carrboro Police. 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: