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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

vpb.virginia.gov

The Virginia Parole Board — The Board’s mission is to grant parole to those inmates whose release is compatible with public safety.

Page Load Speed

686 ms in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

556 ms

Page Rendered

101 ms

About Website

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The Virginia Parole Board website includes recent parole decisions, forms for inmates, explanations of the parole process, and resources for victims.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vpb.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 657 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

vpb.virginia.gov performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.233

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vpb.virginia.gov

29 ms

vpb.virginia.gov

227 ms

reset.css

25 ms

main.css

37 ms

vpb-min-2014-06-03.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Vpb.virginia.gov, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Developer.virginia.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (295 ms) relates to the external source Developer.virginia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

487.1 kB

After Optimization

363.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vpb.virginia.gov main page is 487.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 274.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 1.2 kB, which is 11% 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 7.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 172.3 kB
  • After minification 169.1 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. Vpb Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 274.1 kB
  • After minification 274.1 kB
  • After compression 185.3 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 88.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Vpb.virginia.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (21%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vpb 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

vpb.virginia.gov accessibility score

95

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

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.

Best Practices

vpb.virginia.gov best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

vpb.virginia.gov SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Vpb.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 Vpb.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 Vpb 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: