Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

loudoun.gov

Loudoun County, VA - Official Website | Official Website

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

914 ms

Page Rendered

982 ms

loudoun.gov screenshot

About Website

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Welcome to the official Loudoun County, Virginia government website.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loudoun.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 1.9 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

loudoun.gov performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

loudoun.gov

41 ms

www.loudoun.gov

96 ms

gtm.js

75 ms

gtm.js

179 ms

antiforgery

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Loudoun.gov, 11% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (260 ms) belongs to the original domain Loudoun.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.5 kB (38%)

Content Size

535.2 kB

After Optimization

330.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Loudoun.gov main page is 535.2 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 225.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 188.3 kB

  • Original 225.2 kB
  • After minification 211.2 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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 188.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 152.9 kB
  • After minification 148.7 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. Loudoun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 151.1 kB
  • After minification 151.1 kB
  • After compression 139.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Loudoun.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (70%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Loudoun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

loudoun.gov accessibility score

80

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

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

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.

Best Practices

loudoun.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

loudoun.gov SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Loudoun.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 Loudoun.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 Loudoun. 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: