Access pennsylvania.gov. PA.GOV | The Official Website for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Report Summary

About Website

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The official website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Find information and services from Pennsylvania state government agencies.

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

pennsylvania.gov

22 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 Pennsylvania.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22 ms) belongs to the original domain Pennsylvania.gov.

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Pennsylvania.gov main page is 4.6 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6 B

Original 39 B
After minification 39 B
After compression 33 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 6 B or 15% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 728.4 kB

Original 4.5 MB
After minification 3.7 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. Obviously, Pennsylvania needs image optimization as it can save up to 728.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

Original 84.1 kB
After minification 84.1 kB
After compression 81.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

Original 108.6 kB
After minification 108.3 kB
After compression 107.6 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. Pennsylvania.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

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

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pennsylvania.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 Pennsylvania.gov main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pennsylvania. 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: