Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

fairfaxcounty.gov

Fairfax County Homepage | Fairfax County

Page Load Speed

750 ms in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

490 ms

Page Rendered

215 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fairfaxcounty.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 705 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fairfaxcounty.gov performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fairfaxcounty.gov

45 ms

site.css

14 ms

jquery.treeview.css

52 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

52 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Fairfaxcounty.gov, 5% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Translate.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (159 ms) relates to the external source Translate.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 934.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Fairfaxcounty.gov main page is 3.3 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 83.9 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 32.3 kB, which is 28% 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 96.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Fairfax County images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 317.8 kB

  • Original 517.7 kB
  • After minification 450.4 kB
  • After compression 199.9 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 317.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 427.2 kB

  • Original 500.0 kB
  • After minification 407.9 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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. Fairfaxcounty.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 427.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (49%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fairfax County. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fairfaxcounty.gov accessibility score

94

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

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

Best Practices

fairfaxcounty.gov best practices score

67

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

fairfaxcounty.gov SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fairfaxcounty.gov 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 Fairfaxcounty.gov 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 Fairfax County. 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: