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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

sos.delaware.gov

Department of State - State of Delaware - Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secretary of State

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secretary of State

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sos.delaware.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sos.delaware.gov performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sos.delaware.gov

228 ms

adrum.js

54 ms

js

155 ms

bootstrap.min.css

114 ms

style.min.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Sos.delaware.gov, 12% (6 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Delaware.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Delaware.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

542.7 kB

After Optimization

443.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sos.delaware.gov main page is 542.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 381.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 86.0 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 71.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 381.8 kB
  • After minification 361.9 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. Sos Delaware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 986 B

  • Original 33.9 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Sos.delaware.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (77%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sos Delaware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sos.delaware.gov accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

Best Practices

sos.delaware.gov best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sos.delaware.gov SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Sos.delaware.gov 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 Sos.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 data is detected on the main page of Sos Delaware. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: