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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

chattanooga.gov

Welcome to Chattanooga.gov

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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About Website

Visit chattanooga.gov now to see the best up-to-date Chattanooga content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chattanooga.gov

Official site for the City of Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Pay property taxes, contact 311, learn about city services, apply for jobs and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chattanooga.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chattanooga.gov performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chattanooga.gov

29 ms

chattanooga.gov

233 ms

mootools-core.js

17 ms

caption.js

16 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Chattanooga.gov, 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (233 ms) belongs to the original domain Chattanooga.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

863.3 kB

After Optimization

811.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chattanooga.gov main page is 863.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 375.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 6.7 kB, which is 17% 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 31.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 375.5 kB
  • After minification 372.0 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. Chattanooga images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 349.5 kB
  • After minification 349.5 kB
  • After compression 337.1 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 99.3 kB
  • After compression 95.5 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. Chattanooga.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (60%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chattanooga. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chattanooga.gov

chattanooga.gov

29 ms

chattanooga.gov

chattanooga.gov

233 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

17 ms

caption.js

caption.js

16 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

31 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

15 ms

bootstrap-modal.css

bootstrap-modal.css

15 ms

joomla.css

joomla.css

49 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

51 ms

custom.css

custom.css

50 ms

department.css

department.css

50 ms

content.css

content.css

48 ms

jcemediabox.min.css

jcemediabox.min.css

47 ms

bootstrapmenu.css

bootstrapmenu.css

52 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

59 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

51 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

51 ms

jcemediabox.min.js

jcemediabox.min.js

53 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

55 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

57 ms

bootstrap-modalmanager.js

bootstrap-modalmanager.js

54 ms

bootstrap-modal.js

bootstrap-modal.js

53 ms

custom.js

custom.js

54 ms

js

js

119 ms

22371519.js

22371519.js

117 ms

8SPwfqhbjxo

8SPwfqhbjxo

134 ms

CityOfChattanooga-GovernmentsFacebookWall

CityOfChattanooga-GovernmentsFacebookWall

110 ms

coolidge.jpg

coolidge.jpg

95 ms

dashboard-icon-twitter.png

dashboard-icon-twitter.png

38 ms

dashboard-icon-facebook.png

dashboard-icon-facebook.png

37 ms

dash-icon-report.png

dash-icon-report.png

37 ms

dashboard-311.png

dashboard-311.png

37 ms

dashboard-icon-services.png

dashboard-icon-services.png

38 ms

dashboard-icon-contact.png

dashboard-icon-contact.png

84 ms

bg_highlight.png

bg_highlight.png

37 ms

nav_image_government.jpg

nav_image_government.jpg

84 ms

nav_image_business.jpg

nav_image_business.jpg

94 ms

nav_image_employment.jpg

nav_image_employment.jpg

93 ms

nav_image_art.jpg

nav_image_art.jpg

94 ms

nav_image_recreation.jpg

nav_image_recreation.jpg

102 ms

nav_image_residents.jpg

nav_image_residents.jpg

101 ms

nav_image_about.jpg

nav_image_about.jpg

100 ms

sidebar-icon-search.png

sidebar-icon-search.png

101 ms

chatypeb2.1regular-webfont.woff

chatypeb2.1regular-webfont.woff

100 ms

banner.js

banner.js

126 ms

fb.js

fb.js

124 ms

22371519.js

22371519.js

154 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

13 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

35 ms

base.js

base.js

61 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

193 ms

vTEfc-jlr9e_tfMt-BR8Zcc1_6XGLRk25TFtjqWuknE.js

vTEfc-jlr9e_tfMt-BR8Zcc1_6XGLRk25TFtjqWuknE.js

121 ms

embed.js

embed.js

39 ms

id

id

30 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

132 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

133 ms

Create

Create

101 ms

Accessibility Review

chattanooga.gov accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

chattanooga.gov best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

chattanooga.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

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 Chattanooga.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 Chattanooga.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

chattanooga.gov

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