Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

dcroads.net

Washington-Baltimore Area Roads, Crossings and Exits

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

dcroads.net screenshot

About Website

Visit dcroads.net now to see the best up-to-date Dc Roads content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dcroads.net

dcroads.net is the complete source for historic information and current conditions on highways, bridges and tunnels in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dcroads.net page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dcroads.net performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dcroads.net

218 ms

tags.js

306 ms

pubcode.min.js

10 ms

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

show_ads.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 247 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Dcroads.net, 6% (16 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com and 5% (13 requests) were made to A.tribalfusion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Dcroads.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 896.3 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

659.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Dcroads.net main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 64.7 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 84.7 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 64.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 126.0 kB
  • After minification 123.3 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. Dc Roads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 828.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 515.5 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 828.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 151 (68%)

Requests Now

221

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 221 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dc Roads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dcroads.net accessibility score

55

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

dcroads.net best practices score

50

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dcroads.net SEO score

50

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

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 Dcroads.net 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 Dcroads.net 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

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