Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

michiganhighways.org

Michigan Highways: The Great Routes of the Great Lakes State

Page Load Speed

683 ms in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

279 ms

Page Rendered

304 ms

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About Website

Visit michiganhighways.org now to see the best up-to-date Michigan Highways content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about michiganhighways.org

Dedicated to the past, present and future of the Michigan State Trunkline highway system as well as other highways and routes throughout the Great Lakes State. This website is intended to be a clearin...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Michiganhighways.org page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 583 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

michiganhighways.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

michiganhighways.org

100 ms

michigan_highways_new.css

50 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

37 ms

SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css

34 ms

i.gif

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Michiganhighways.org, 6% (1 request) were made to T1.extreme-dm.com and 6% (1 request) were made to E1.extreme-dm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (100 ms) belongs to the original domain Michiganhighways.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

657.0 kB

After Optimization

614.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Michiganhighways.org main page is 657.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 605.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 4.1 kB, which is 26% 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 12.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 213 B

  • Original 605.1 kB
  • After minification 604.9 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. Michigan Highways images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 17.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Michiganhighways.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Michigan Highways. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

michiganhighways.org accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

michiganhighways.org best practices score

75

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

michiganhighways.org SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Michiganhighways.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Michiganhighways.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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