Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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About Website

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City of Ottawa, IL 61350 at the Fox and Illinois Rivers. Find permits, forms, applications, agendas, minutes, videos, codes, ordinances and online payments

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofottawa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofottawa.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cityofottawa.org

154 ms

www.cityofottawa.org

4858 ms

rokbox.css

83 ms

menu-4a830f5b1c912dcee2cf714b18261270.css

127 ms

grid-responsive.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofottawa.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Cityofottawa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

789.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Cityofottawa.org 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 845.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 44.8 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.5 kB, which is 32% 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 56.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 500.2 kB
  • After minification 487.9 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. Cityofottawa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 395.4 kB

  • Original 589.6 kB
  • After minification 581.2 kB
  • After compression 194.2 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 395.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 747.5 kB

  • Original 845.4 kB
  • After minification 828.5 kB
  • After compression 97.8 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. Cityofottawa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 747.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (60%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cityofottawa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cityofottawa.org SEO score

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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 Cityofottawa.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 Cityofottawa.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

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