Access kentucky.gov. Welcome

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

www.kentucky.gov

134 ms

home.aspx

2569 ms

minimalv4.css

35 ms

layouts.css

80 ms

corev15.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Kentucky.gov, 12% (12 requests) were made to Secure.kentucky.gov and 8% (8 requests) were made to Live.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Kentucky.gov.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Kentucky.gov main page is 2.1 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. 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 153.3 kB

Original 181.6 kB
After minification 151.7 kB
After compression 28.3 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 30.0 kB, which is 17% 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 153.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 1.2 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. Kentucky images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 143.5 kB

Original 563.6 kB
After minification 563.0 kB
After compression 420.2 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 143.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

Original 102.9 kB
After minification 102.9 kB
After compression 69.8 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. Kentucky.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.2 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kentucky. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Kentucky.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 Kentucky.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

kentucky.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kentucky. 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

Welcome

Page Load Speed

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

www.kentucky.gov

home.aspx

minimalv4.css

layouts.css

corev15.css

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

www.kentucky.gov

home.aspx

minimalv4.css

layouts.css

corev15.css

controls15.css

initstrings.js

init.js

ScriptResource.axd

blank.js

trendingservicemodel.js

enterprise-loader.min.js

kygov.min.css

PortalSearch.js

portalsearch.min.css

masonry.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

css

kygovlocal.min.css

agency.css

js

js

element.js

flickr.js

agency.js

alert.js

jquery.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

jasny-bootstrap.min.js

KI.Search.Form.plugin.js

enterprise-portalbar-bootstrap.js

enterprise-footerbar-bootstrap.js

bootstrap.min.css

jasny-bootstrap.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

feature-flood-2022.jpg

TeamKentucky%20two-color.svg

featured-tornado.jpg

feature-economy.jpg

feature-NationalHumanTrafficHotline800x400.jpg

official-governor.jpg

official-lt-governor.jpg

official-sos.jpg