Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

safezones.maryland.gov

Automated Speed Enforcement in Work Zones

Page Load Speed

690 ms in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

546 ms

Page Rendered

89 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Safezones.maryland.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 635 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

safezones.maryland.gov performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

safezones.maryland.gov

55 ms

Home.aspx

92 ms

toruskit.bundle.css

42 ms

bootstrap.min.css

66 ms

css2

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Safezones.maryland.gov, 19% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (99 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 248.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Safezones.maryland.gov main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 36.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 37.4 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. Safe Zones Maryland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 106.3 kB

  • Original 424.3 kB
  • After minification 424.2 kB
  • After compression 318.0 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 106.3 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 67.6 kB

  • Original 168.5 kB
  • After minification 168.5 kB
  • After compression 100.9 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. Safezones.maryland.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.6 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (70%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Safe Zones 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

safezones.maryland.gov accessibility score

86

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

safezones.maryland.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

safezones.maryland.gov SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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