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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

cityofpittsfield.org

City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts | Official Website

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

cityofpittsfield.org screenshot

About Website

Visit cityofpittsfield.org now to see the best up-to-date City Of Pittsfield content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cityofpittsfield.org

Official government website for the City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Connect with your local government, receive news and updates, learn about city services, and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofpittsfield.org page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofpittsfield.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.601

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cityofpittsfield.org

185 ms

cityofpittsfield.org

262 ms

www.cityofpittsfield.org

311 ms

revize.css

63 ms

bootstrap.min.css

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofpittsfield.org, 34% (38 requests) were made to Cms2.revize.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.live4.revize.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (750 ms) relates to the external source Cms2.revize.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 601.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

19.3 MB

After Optimization

18.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cityofpittsfield.org main page is 19.3 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. Images take 18.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 182.0 kB

  • Original 208.9 kB
  • After minification 177.5 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 31.4 kB, which is 15% 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 182.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 371.0 kB

  • Original 18.7 MB
  • After minification 18.4 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. City Of Pittsfield images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 294.9 kB
  • After minification 294.9 kB
  • After compression 262.9 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 32.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Cityofpittsfield.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.9 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (32%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Of Pittsfield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cityofpittsfield.org

cityofpittsfield.org

185 ms

cityofpittsfield.org

cityofpittsfield.org

262 ms

www.cityofpittsfield.org

www.cityofpittsfield.org

311 ms

revize.css

revize.css

63 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

146 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

195 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

202 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

208 ms

layout.css

layout.css

253 ms

css

css

38 ms

addtohomescreen.css

addtohomescreen.css

262 ms

addtohomescreen.min.js

addtohomescreen.min.js

260 ms

snippet_helper.js

snippet_helper.js

260 ms

element.js

element.js

52 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

281 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

270 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

316 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

342 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

342 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

340 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

342 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

347 ms

revize.css

revize.css

263 ms

snippet_helper.js

snippet_helper.js

128 ms

logo.png

logo.png

73 ms

pittsfield_new.png

pittsfield_new.png

75 ms

press-icon.png

press-icon.png

73 ms

top.png

top.png

73 ms

logo.png

logo.png

380 ms

press-icon.png

press-icon.png

432 ms

top.png

top.png

431 ms

pittsfield_new.png

pittsfield_new.png

486 ms

ACaslonPro-Regular.woff

ACaslonPro-Regular.woff

125 ms

ACaslonPro-Semibold.woff

ACaslonPro-Semibold.woff

141 ms

ACaslonPro-Bold.woff

ACaslonPro-Bold.woff

140 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Hw5aX8.ttf

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Hw5aX8.ttf

38 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM73w5aX8.ttf

50 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

75 ms

seq1.jpg

seq1.jpg

68 ms

pit2.jpg

pit2.jpg

69 ms

pit3.jpg

pit3.jpg

194 ms

pit4.jpg

pit4.jpg

194 ms

pit5.jpg

pit5.jpg

195 ms

pit7.jpg

pit7.jpg

196 ms

pit8.JPG

pit8.JPG

325 ms

pit9.JPG

pit9.JPG

325 ms

pit10.JPG

pit10.JPG

325 ms

communityarts_4_090.jpg

communityarts_4_090.jpg

325 ms

drummers%20dancers%20church%20lawn.jpg

drummers%20dancers%20church%20lawn.jpg

327 ms

YOUTHINITIATIVE-6.jpg

YOUTHINITIATIVE-6.jpg

387 ms

seq9e.jpg

seq9e.jpg

384 ms

bg-qlinks.jpg

bg-qlinks.jpg

358 ms

ACaslonPro-BoldItalic.woff

ACaslonPro-BoldItalic.woff

410 ms

Toter%20-%20Copy%20(2).jpg

Toter%20-%20Copy%20(2).jpg

335 ms

seq1.jpg

seq1.jpg

588 ms

pit2.jpg

pit2.jpg

750 ms

Important%20Announcement%20(414%20x%20276%20px).png

Important%20Announcement%20(414%20x%20276%20px).png

314 ms

index.html

index.html

409 ms

footer-shade.png

footer-shade.png

370 ms

back.png

back.png

382 ms

pit3.jpg

pit3.jpg

579 ms

pit4.jpg

pit4.jpg

579 ms

pit5.jpg

pit5.jpg

628 ms

pit7.jpg

pit7.jpg

578 ms

ga.js

ga.js

122 ms

colonial%20a%20chorus%20line.jpg

colonial%20a%20chorus%20line.jpg

407 ms

owl-prev.png

owl-prev.png

145 ms

owl-next.png

owl-next.png

143 ms

shade-top.png

shade-top.png

191 ms

slider-nav.png

slider-nav.png

196 ms

pit8.JPG

pit8.JPG

522 ms

pit10.JPG

pit10.JPG

522 ms

pit9.JPG

pit9.JPG

568 ms

communityarts_4_090.jpg

communityarts_4_090.jpg

633 ms

drummers%20dancers%20church%20lawn.jpg

drummers%20dancers%20church%20lawn.jpg

667 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Important%20Announcement%20(414%20x%20276%20px).png

Important%20Announcement%20(414%20x%20276%20px).png

498 ms

seq9e.jpg

seq9e.jpg

536 ms

Toter%20-%20Copy%20(2).jpg

Toter%20-%20Copy%20(2).jpg

520 ms

YOUTHINITIATIVE-6.jpg

YOUTHINITIATIVE-6.jpg

620 ms

bg-qlinks.jpg

bg-qlinks.jpg

566 ms

footer-shade.png

footer-shade.png

519 ms

back.png

back.png

594 ms

owl-next.png

owl-next.png

557 ms

owl-prev.png

owl-prev.png

557 ms

jstz.min.js

jstz.min.js

548 ms

shade-top.png

shade-top.png

546 ms

slider-nav.png

slider-nav.png

553 ms

permissions.png

permissions.png

63 ms

edit_header.png

edit_header.png

67 ms

help.gif

help.gif

64 ms

month_view_up.png

month_view_up.png

68 ms

week_view_up.png

week_view_up.png

64 ms

day_view_up.png

day_view_up.png

68 ms

ical.png

ical.png

120 ms

new_event_calendar.png

new_event_calendar.png

126 ms

config_calendar.gif

config_calendar.gif

127 ms

close_calendar.png

close_calendar.png

131 ms

calendar_app_noimage.gif

calendar_app_noimage.gif

132 ms

permissions.png

permissions.png

59 ms

help.gif

help.gif

59 ms

week_view_up.png

week_view_up.png

61 ms

edit_header.png

edit_header.png

59 ms

month_view_up.png

month_view_up.png

61 ms

day_view_up.png

day_view_up.png

59 ms

ical.png

ical.png

67 ms

new_event_calendar.png

new_event_calendar.png

59 ms

config_calendar.gif

config_calendar.gif

60 ms

close_calendar.png

close_calendar.png

60 ms

calendar_app_noimage.gif

calendar_app_noimage.gif

59 ms

calendar_app_javascript.js

calendar_app_javascript.js

152 ms

Accessibility Review

cityofpittsfield.org accessibility score

66

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

cityofpittsfield.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

SEO Factors

cityofpittsfield.org SEO score

82

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

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 Cityofpittsfield.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 Cityofpittsfield.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

cityofpittsfield.org

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