Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

missdig.org

Michigan Utility Notification Center - MISS DIG System

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

416 ms

missdig.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to missdig.org homepage info - get ready to check MISS DIG best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about missdig.org

MISS DIG is Michigan's only utility safety notification system. We make it easy for you to request public utility lines to be marked so you can safely complete your digging project.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Missdig.org page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 1.6 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

missdig.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

missdig.org

13 ms

www.missdig811.org

429 ms

main.css

89 ms

awsstatreporter.com

35 ms

platform.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Missdig.org, 53% (17 requests) were made to Missdig811.org and 13% (4 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (429 ms) relates to the external source Missdig811.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Missdig.org main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 32.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. MISS DIG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 355 B

  • Original 318.6 kB
  • After minification 318.6 kB
  • After compression 318.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 83.4 kB

  • Original 115.4 kB
  • After minification 115.4 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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. Missdig.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (30%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MISS DIG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

missdig.org accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

missdig.org 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

missdig.org SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of MISS DIG. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: