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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

eva.virginia.gov

eVA - Virginia's eProcurement Marketplace

Page Load Speed

680 ms in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

422 ms

Page Rendered

245 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eva.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 667 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eva.virginia.gov performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eva.virginia.gov

13 ms

eva.virginia.gov

27 ms

site_global.css

14 ms

master_a-master.css

26 ms

index.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Eva.virginia.gov, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Developer.virginia.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Developer.virginia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 768.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eva.virginia.gov main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 224.1 kB

  • Original 246.4 kB
  • After minification 184.1 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 62.3 kB, which is 25% 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 224.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 968.3 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. EVA Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 230.3 kB

  • Original 475.0 kB
  • After minification 473.9 kB
  • After compression 244.8 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 230.3 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 261.8 kB

  • Original 289.4 kB
  • After minification 274.5 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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. Eva.virginia.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (33%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EVA Virginia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

eva.virginia.gov accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

eva.virginia.gov best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

eva.virginia.gov SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Eva.virginia.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 Eva.virginia.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 EVA Virginia. 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: