Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

cityofknox.net

Welcome to the City of Knox - Starke County, Indiana

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing City Of Knox content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cityofknox.net

The City Officials welcome you on behalf of the residents of Knox. We hope that you will find this a friendly, safe and prosperous community in which to live, work, learn, and play. The City of Knox i...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofknox.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofknox.net performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cityofknox.net

1022 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

view.css

42 ms

vegas.min.css

42 ms

view.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofknox.net, 31% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cityofknox.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

886.7 kB

After Optimization

639.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cityofknox.net main page is 886.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 653.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 7.7 kB, which is 18% 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 34.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 95.0 kB

  • Original 653.2 kB
  • After minification 558.2 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. Obviously, City Of Knox needs image optimization as it can save up to 95.0 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

-39%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 89.6 kB
  • After compression 54.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 34.8 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 82.5 kB

  • Original 101.9 kB
  • After minification 81.6 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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. Cityofknox.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (59%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Of Knox. 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 JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cityofknox.net accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

cityofknox.net 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

SEO Factors

cityofknox.net 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cityofknox.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cityofknox.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 data is detected on the main page of City Of Knox. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: