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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

cityconnections.com

City Connections - The Site for Municipal and other Government Links

Page Load Speed

383 ms in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

201 ms

Page Rendered

117 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cityconnections.com homepage info - get ready to check City Connections best content right away, or after learning these important things about cityconnections.com

City Connections is the gateway for municipal government web sites in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityconnections.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 318 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityconnections.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityconnections.com

65 ms

xaramenu.js

24 ms

menu_cc1.js

47 ms

blue_back.jpg

53 ms

CC1.jpg

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Cityconnections.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (65 ms) belongs to the original domain Cityconnections.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

37.0 kB

After Optimization

20.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cityconnections.com main page is 37.0 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 8.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 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. City Connections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 8.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (56%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Connections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cityconnections.com

cityconnections.com

65 ms

xaramenu.js

xaramenu.js

24 ms

menu_cc1.js

menu_cc1.js

47 ms

blue_back.jpg

blue_back.jpg

53 ms

CC1.jpg

CC1.jpg

55 ms

USFLAG3.GIF

USFLAG3.GIF

53 ms

NJ_CLEAN_LOGO100px.jpg

NJ_CLEAN_LOGO100px.jpg

54 ms

menu_cc1_left.gif

menu_cc1_left.gif

23 ms

menu_cc1_b1_over.gif

menu_cc1_b1_over.gif

25 ms

menu_cc1_b1.gif

menu_cc1_b1.gif

25 ms

menu_cc1_b2_over.gif

menu_cc1_b2_over.gif

25 ms

menu_cc1_b2.gif

menu_cc1_b2.gif

26 ms

menu_cc1_b3_over.gif

menu_cc1_b3_over.gif

25 ms

menu_cc1_b3.gif

menu_cc1_b3.gif

45 ms

menu_cc1_b4_over.gif

menu_cc1_b4_over.gif

47 ms

menu_cc1_b4.gif

menu_cc1_b4.gif

47 ms

menu_cc1_right.gif

menu_cc1_right.gif

47 ms

Accessibility Review

cityconnections.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

cityconnections.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cityconnections.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cityconnections.com 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 Cityconnections.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

cityconnections.com

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