Access hanovercounty.gov. Hanover County, VA

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value39.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,040 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.32

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

hanovercounty.gov

198 ms

www.hanovercounty.gov

344 ms

gtm.js

744 ms

gtm.js

817 ms

antiforgery

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Hanovercounty.gov, 17% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (817 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Content Size

640.3 kB

After Optimization

528.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Hanovercounty.gov main page is 640.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 376.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

Original 110.5 kB
After minification 104.3 kB
After compression 22.1 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 88.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

Original 376.0 kB
After minification 372.9 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. Hanover County images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

Original 148.0 kB
After minification 147.9 kB
After compression 127.3 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 20.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 16 B

Original 5.8 kB
After minification 5.8 kB
After compression 5.8 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. Hanovercounty.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hanover 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 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

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

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

High

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

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Hanovercounty.gov 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 Hanovercounty.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

hanovercounty.gov

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Hanover County, VA | Official Website

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First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

hanovercounty.gov

www.hanovercounty.gov

gtm.js

gtm.js

antiforgery

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

hanovercounty.gov

www.hanovercounty.gov

gtm.js

gtm.js

antiforgery

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

jQuery-migrate-1.4.1.js

554272187.css

729120207.css

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ba.js

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

Search.js

jquery-ui.css

Calendar.js

jquery.urlToLink.min.js

Carousel.jquery.js

Easing.1.3.jquery.js

Widget.css

email-decode.min.js

745732998.css

APIClient.js

Moment.min.js

SplashModalRender.js

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