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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

kydlgweb.ky.gov

Kentucky DLG Home

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

515 ms

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About Website

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The Kentucky Department for Local Government website is designed to provide a user interface for information regarding Kentucky's counties, cities and special districts

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kydlgweb.ky.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kydlgweb.ky.gov performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.476

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kydlgweb.ky.gov

91 ms

dlg.ky.gov

301 ms

index.aspx

2740 ms

minimalv4.css

64 ms

layouts.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kydlgweb.ky.gov, 42% (28 requests) were made to Dlg.ky.gov and 28% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Dlg.ky.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kydlgweb.ky.gov main page is 2.8 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. 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 42.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Ky DLG Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 39.3 kB

  • Original 240.4 kB
  • After minification 240.4 kB
  • After compression 201.2 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 39.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 109.6 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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. Kydlgweb.ky.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (69%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ky DLG Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kydlgweb.ky.gov

kydlgweb.ky.gov

91 ms

dlg.ky.gov

dlg.ky.gov

301 ms

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index.aspx

2740 ms

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minimalv4.css

64 ms

layouts.css

layouts.css

113 ms

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corev15.css

184 ms

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controls15.css

163 ms

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initstrings.js

152 ms

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init.js

169 ms

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210 ms

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blank.js

146 ms

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ScriptResource.axd

174 ms

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126 ms

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jasny-bootstrap.min.css

76 ms

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ca2dbdb681.js

87 ms

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agency-enterprise-sp2013.min.css

144 ms

enterprise-loader.min.js

enterprise-loader.min.js

155 ms

eec.css

eec.css

244 ms

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161 ms

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ribbon-styles.css

224 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

244 ms

homepage.js

homepage.js

243 ms

enterprise-loader.min.js

enterprise-loader.min.js

165 ms

agency.js

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243 ms

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alert.js

59 ms

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css

47 ms

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17 ms

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20 ms

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logo.png

131 ms

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federal-grants.jpg

96 ms

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state-grants.jpg

261 ms

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disaster-recovery.jpg

217 ms

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local-officials-training.jpg

197 ms

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cities-spge-tile.jpg

89 ms

county-info-tile.jpg

county-info-tile.jpg

195 ms

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federal-grant-tile.jpg

218 ms

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219 ms

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Accessibility Review

kydlgweb.ky.gov accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

kydlgweb.ky.gov best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kydlgweb.ky.gov SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kydlgweb.ky.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 Kydlgweb.ky.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

kydlgweb.ky.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ky DLG Web. 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: