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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

stearnscountymn.gov

Stearns County, MN - Official Website | Official Website

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

939 ms

Page Rendered

76 ms

About Website

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The official website of Stearns County, Minnesota. Chrome is the recommended browser for this site.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stearnscountymn.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stearnscountymn.gov performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.746

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stearnscountymn.gov

58 ms

www.stearnscountymn.gov

409 ms

gtm.js

92 ms

bot.js

52 ms

2026824461.css

265 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Stearnscountymn.gov, 19% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Content.civicplus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (409 ms) belongs to the original domain Stearnscountymn.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 504.9 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stearnscountymn.gov main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 349.9 kB

  • Original 422.0 kB
  • After minification 422.0 kB
  • After compression 72.1 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 349.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 939 B

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Obviously, Stearns County MN needs image optimization as it can save up to 939 B or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 142.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 142.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Stearnscountymn.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.9 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (74%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stearns County MN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

stearnscountymn.gov accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA progressbar elements 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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stearnscountymn.gov best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

stearnscountymn.gov SEO score

84

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 Stearnscountymn.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 Stearnscountymn.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 Stearns County MN. 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: