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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

dhhs.nc.gov

NC DHHS: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

839 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing DHHS NC content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dhhs.nc.gov

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is responsible for ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all North Carolinians.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dhhs.nc.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms 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

dhhs.nc.gov performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dhhs.nc.gov

32 ms

www.ncdhhs.gov

192 ms

js

69 ms

gtm.js

139 ms

core.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 184 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dhhs.nc.gov, 84% (155 requests) were made to Ncdhhs.gov and 6% (11 requests) were made to Files.nc.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) relates to the external source Files.nc.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dhhs.nc.gov main page is 2.2 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 76.6 kB

  • Original 95.2 kB
  • After minification 83.3 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 11.9 kB, which is 12% 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 76.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 116.7 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. DHHS NC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 181.5 kB
  • After minification 180.4 kB
  • After compression 171.0 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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. Dhhs.nc.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 161 (91%)

Requests Now

177

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 177 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DHHS NC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 72 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 91 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dhhs.nc.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dhhs.nc.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dhhs.nc.gov SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Dhhs.nc.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 Dhhs.nc.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 DHHS NC. 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: