Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

heritage.ky.gov

Welcome - Kentucky Heritage Council

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

472 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

heritage.ky.gov screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heritage.ky.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 472 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

heritage.ky.gov performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

heritage.ky.gov

472 ms

ky_ewdt.css

179 ms

ky_heritage.css

74 ms

font-awesome.min.css

5 ms

heritageBranding_bg.jpg

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Heritage.ky.gov, 8% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Heritage.ky.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

440.6 kB

After Optimization

343.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Heritage.ky.gov main page is 440.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 339.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 30.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 339.4 kB
  • After minification 321.9 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. Heritage Ky images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 43.8 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. Heritage.ky.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heritage Ky. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

heritage.ky.gov accessibility score

87

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

heritage.ky.gov best practices score

69

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

heritage.ky.gov SEO score

84

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Heritage.ky.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 Heritage.ky.gov 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 Heritage Ky. 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: