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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

minnesotabids.us

Minnesota Bids

Page Load Speed

586 ms in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

312 ms

Page Rendered

203 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Minnesotabids.us page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 515 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

minnesotabids.us performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 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)

Value3.0 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

minnesotabids.us

71 ms

www.minnesotabids.us

95 ms

common.css

4 ms

home.css

5 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Minnesotabids.us, 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Usaopps.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (95 ms) belongs to the original domain Minnesotabids.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

434.8 kB

After Optimization

243.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Minnesotabids.us main page is 434.8 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 252.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 13.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 252.8 kB
  • After minification 187.4 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, Minnesota Bids needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.4 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 126.4 kB
  • After minification 120.7 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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 83.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Minnesotabids.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (42%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Minnesota Bids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

minnesotabids.us

minnesotabids.us

71 ms

www.minnesotabids.us

www.minnesotabids.us

95 ms

common.css

common.css

4 ms

home.css

home.css

5 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

15 ms

jquery.timers.js

jquery.timers.js

7 ms

jquery.autoScroller.js

jquery.autoScroller.js

13 ms

cookieconsent.js

cookieconsent.js

13 ms

cookieconsent-init.js

cookieconsent-init.js

14 ms

css

css

30 ms

print.css

print.css

3 ms

cookieconsent.css

cookieconsent.css

3 ms

MN.png

MN.png

75 ms

logo_email_header.png

logo_email_header.png

68 ms

menu_toggle_btn.gif

menu_toggle_btn.gif

7 ms

MN_114.jpg

MN_114.jpg

17 ms

btn_search.png

btn_search.png

8 ms

icon_target.png

icon_target.png

7 ms

freetrial_bg.gif

freetrial_bg.gif

10 ms

icon_triangle.gif

icon_triangle.gif

8 ms

font

font

20 ms

Accessibility Review

minnesotabids.us accessibility score

74

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

minnesotabids.us best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

minnesotabids.us SEO score

98

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 Minnesotabids.us 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 Minnesotabids.us 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

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