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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

cityofbowie.org

Bowie, MD - Official Website | Official Website

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

627 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofbowie.org page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofbowie.org performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value43.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,820 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.341

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityofbowie.org

122 ms

www.cityofbowie.org

583 ms

gtm.js

39 ms

gtm.js

78 ms

antiforgery

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofbowie.org, 11% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (583 ms) belongs to the original domain Cityofbowie.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cityofbowie.org main page is 3.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 146.6 kB

  • Original 176.9 kB
  • After minification 166.7 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. 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 146.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB

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. Cityof Bowie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 97.2 kB

  • Original 366.6 kB
  • After minification 366.3 kB
  • After compression 269.4 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 97.2 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 64.8 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. Cityofbowie.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (51%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cityof Bowie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cityofbowie.org

cityofbowie.org

122 ms

www.cityofbowie.org

www.cityofbowie.org

583 ms

gtm.js

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39 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

78 ms

antiforgery

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97 ms

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130 ms

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miniCalendar.js

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Accessibility Review

cityofbowie.org accessibility score

76

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

cityofbowie.org best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cityofbowie.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cityofbowie.org 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 Cityofbowie.org 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

cityofbowie.org

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