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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

alpha.delaware.gov

Delaware.gov - Official Website of the State of Delaware

Page Load Speed

234 ms in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

117 ms

Page Rendered

71 ms

About Website

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The official website of the State of Delaware. Find information about state government, programs, and services. The First State is located in the Northeast U.S.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alpha.delaware.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 188 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alpha.delaware.gov performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alpha.delaware.gov

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Alpha.delaware.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (46 ms) belongs to the original domain Alpha.delaware.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alpha.delaware.gov main page is 3.0 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 43 B

  • Original 246 B
  • After minification 246 B
  • After compression 203 B

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 43 B or 17% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Alpha Delaware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 154.0 kB
  • After minification 154.0 kB
  • After compression 138.2 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. Alpha.delaware.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

alpha.delaware.gov accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

alpha.delaware.gov 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

SEO Factors

alpha.delaware.gov SEO score

58

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

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 Alpha.delaware.gov 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 Alpha.delaware.gov 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 Alpha Delaware. 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: