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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

apply.mt.gov

Montana DPHHS - SNAP, TANF, LIHEAP and Health Coverage Assistance Application

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

450 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services online application for SNAP, TANF, LIHEAP and Health Coverage Assistance

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apply.mt.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 450 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apply.mt.gov performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.661

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apply.mt.gov

450 ms

4c374cd.css

305 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

267 ms

header-footer.css

166 ms

modernizr.custom.2.5.2.js

222 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Apply.mt.gov, 16% (4 requests) were made to D3f47729h5v3cy.cloudfront.net and 12% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (543 ms) belongs to the original domain Apply.mt.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

932.2 kB

After Optimization

678.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apply.mt.gov main page is 932.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 720.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 4.0 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 18.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 80.7 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. Obviously, Apply Mt needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.2 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 140.8 kB

  • Original 720.9 kB
  • After minification 684.4 kB
  • After compression 580.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 140.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 71.4 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. Apply.mt.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Mt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apply.mt.gov

apply.mt.gov

450 ms

4c374cd.css

4c374cd.css

305 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

mediaelementplayer.min.css

267 ms

header-footer.css

header-footer.css

166 ms

modernizr.custom.2.5.2.js

modernizr.custom.2.5.2.js

222 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

19 ms

globalValidator.js

globalValidator.js

543 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

439 ms

12b681e.js

12b681e.js

290 ms

lex-web-ui-loader.min.js

lex-web-ui-loader.min.js

78 ms

montanalogo.png

montanalogo.png

462 ms

bg_noise_grey02.jpg

bg_noise_grey02.jpg

136 ms

SOMLogo.png

SOMLogo.png

135 ms

noise_bg02.jpg

noise_bg02.jpg

135 ms

ribbon_rt3.png

ribbon_rt3.png

136 ms

file_1.png

file_1.png

135 ms

ind_icon.png

ind_icon.png

134 ms

ga.js

ga.js

119 ms

lex-web-ui-loader.css

lex-web-ui-loader.css

59 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

aws-sdk-2.671.0.min.js

aws-sdk-2.671.0.min.js

33 ms

aws-config.js

aws-config.js

32 ms

lex-web-ui-loader-config.json

lex-web-ui-loader-config.json

35 ms

cognito-identity.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

cognito-identity.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

61 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

Accessibility Review

apply.mt.gov accessibility score

84

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.

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

Best Practices

apply.mt.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

apply.mt.gov SEO score

88

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

apply.mt.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Apply Mt. 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: