Access maryland.gov. Maryland.gov - Official Website of the State of Maryland

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

maryland.gov

22 ms

maryland.gov

24 ms

www.maryland.gov

26 ms

default.aspx

11 ms

gtm.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Maryland.gov, 17% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.govshare.site and 11% (5 requests) were made to Egov.maryland.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (343 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.govshare.site.

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Maryland.gov main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 851.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 93.2 kB

Original 127.5 kB
After minification 119.3 kB
After compression 34.3 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 93.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

Original 334.4 kB
After minification 318.1 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. Maryland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 142.7 kB

Original 851.5 kB
After minification 829.8 kB
After compression 708.8 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 142.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

Original 117.0 kB
After minification 104.5 kB
After compression 79.3 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. Maryland.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.7 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maryland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.