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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

dcpermits.com

Washington DC Permit Expediter

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

569 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dcpermits.com page load time and found that the first response time was 140 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dcpermits.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,000 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dcpermits.com

140 ms

js

84 ms

t.js

45 ms

viewer.css

74 ms

viewer.js

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Dcpermits.com, 15% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) relates to the external source Webzaitest.blob.core.windows.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dcpermits.com main page is 4.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 352.8 kB

  • Original 385.9 kB
  • After minification 385.9 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 352.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. DC Permit S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 235.3 kB
  • After minification 235.2 kB
  • After compression 224.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Dcpermits.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (37%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DC Permit S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dcpermits.com

dcpermits.com

140 ms

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84 ms

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45 ms

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74 ms

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102 ms

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249 ms

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258 ms

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315 ms

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195 ms

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915 ms

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666 ms

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759 ms

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772 ms

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985 ms

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27 ms

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30 ms

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4 ms

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13 ms

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21 ms

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54 ms

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16 ms

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35 ms

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20 ms

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25 ms

Accessibility Review

dcpermits.com accessibility score

52

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

dcpermits.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dcpermits.com SEO score

84

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

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dcpermits.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 Dcpermits.com 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

dcpermits.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of DC Permit S. 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: