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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

marylandfirefighters.com

Maryland Firefighters | Fire-EMS Resource Information for the entire state of Maryland

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

marylandfirefighters.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Maryland Firefighters content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about marylandfirefighters.com

Maryland Fire and EMS information about fire departments, stations, apparatus, jobs, scanner frequencies, live dispatch, FEMA grant awards, death benefits, and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marylandfirefighters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marylandfirefighters.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marylandfirefighters.com

169 ms

www.marylandfirefighters.com

221 ms

style.css

53 ms

rss.bloople.net

6986 ms

242.gif

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Marylandfirefighters.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Rss.bloople.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7 sec) relates to the external source Rss.bloople.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

446.7 kB

After Optimization

358.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marylandfirefighters.com main page is 446.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 354.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 69.1 kB

  • Original 91.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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 69.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 354.3 kB
  • After minification 335.0 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 Firefighters images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 162 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 892 B

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. Marylandfirefighters.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 162 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maryland Firefighters. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

marylandfirefighters.com

marylandfirefighters.com

169 ms

www.marylandfirefighters.com

www.marylandfirefighters.com

221 ms

style.css

style.css

53 ms

rss.bloople.net

rss.bloople.net

6986 ms

242.gif

242.gif

59 ms

head.gif

head.gif

211 ms

md.gif

md.gif

159 ms

BaltoCity4BCFOA.jpg

BaltoCity4BCFOA.jpg

160 ms

FrederickCarlosPerez.jpg

FrederickCarlosPerez.jpg

159 ms

JackSullivan.jpg

JackSullivan.jpg

209 ms

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160 ms

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KennyRiveraLaurel.jpg

210 ms

Cresaptown.jpg

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260 ms

HarwoodLothian.jpg

HarwoodLothian.jpg

261 ms

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212 ms

WaterwayMd.gif

WaterwayMd.gif

260 ms

Firecam.gif

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263 ms

ftc.gif

ftc.gif

261 ms

AV.gif

AV.gif

265 ms

stahouse.gif

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312 ms

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312 ms

TEAM.gif

TEAM.gif

312 ms

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313 ms

fenton.gif

fenton.gif

316 ms

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9.gif

316 ms

TSS.gif

TSS.gif

364 ms

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11.gif

364 ms

Magnegrip.gif

Magnegrip.gif

364 ms

Howell.gif

Howell.gif

365 ms

3Decals.gif

3Decals.gif

366 ms

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15.gif

367 ms

savin468a.gif

savin468a.gif

415 ms

Accessibility Review

marylandfirefighters.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

marylandfirefighters.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

marylandfirefighters.com SEO score

100

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

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 Marylandfirefighters.com 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 Marylandfirefighters.com 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

marylandfirefighters.com

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