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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

maryland.gov

Maryland.gov - Official Website of the State of Maryland

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

944 ms

Page Rendered

169 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maryland.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maryland.gov performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

maryland.gov

22 ms

maryland.gov

24 ms

www.maryland.gov

26 ms

default.aspx

11 ms

gtm.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Maryland.gov, 17% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.govshare.site and 11% (5 requests) were made to Egov.maryland.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (343 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.govshare.site.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 290.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Maryland.gov main page is 1.4 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. 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. Javascripts take 851.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 93.2 kB

  • Original 127.5 kB
  • After minification 119.3 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 93.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 334.4 kB
  • After minification 318.1 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. Maryland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 142.7 kB

  • Original 851.5 kB
  • After minification 829.8 kB
  • After compression 708.8 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 142.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

  • Original 117.0 kB
  • After minification 104.5 kB
  • After compression 79.3 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. Maryland.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.7 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (67%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maryland. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

maryland.gov

maryland.gov

22 ms

maryland.gov

maryland.gov

24 ms

www.maryland.gov

www.maryland.gov

26 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

11 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

130 ms

initstrings.js

initstrings.js

9 ms

init.js

init.js

34 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

49 ms

blank.js

blank.js

56 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

90 ms

site.css

site.css

95 ms

css

css

57 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

85 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

148 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

159 ms

js

js

64 ms

ewf.js

ewf.js

91 ms

nate.min.js

nate.min.js

88 ms

40x44_SearchButton.png

40x44_SearchButton.png

115 ms

303 ms

334 ms

cse.js

cse.js

140 ms

agent-mary-land-icon-cropped.svg

agent-mary-land-icon-cropped.svg

89 ms

MDTHink_Flag.png

MDTHink_Flag.png

116 ms

onestop-card-image.jpg

onestop-card-image.jpg

89 ms

governorLtGovernor-card-image.jpg

governorLtGovernor-card-image.jpg

91 ms

Covid-19-Vaccine-Resources.jpg

Covid-19-Vaccine-Resources.jpg

92 ms

CDG21-GovX-Winner-Images-Overall-Winner-1024x512-Web.png

CDG21-GovX-Winner-Images-Overall-Winner-1024x512-Web.png

93 ms

logo.png

logo.png

114 ms

js

js

135 ms

monsido-script.js

monsido-script.js

308 ms

api

api

91 ms

fa-thin-100.ttf

fa-thin-100.ttf

343 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

342 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

343 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

242 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

160 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

217 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

320 ms

minimalist.css

minimalist.css

333 ms

strings.js

strings.js

45 ms

js

js

185 ms

js

js

186 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

91 ms

core.js

core.js

53 ms

branding.png

branding.png

52 ms

mquery.js

mquery.js

15 ms

Accessibility Review

maryland.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

maryland.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

maryland.gov SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Maryland.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 Maryland.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

maryland.gov

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