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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

des.nh.gov

Welcome | NH Department of Environmental Services

Page Load Speed

947 ms in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

658 ms

Page Rendered

183 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Des.nh.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 841 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

des.nh.gov performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.507

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

des.nh.gov

106 ms

nhgov.css

28 ms

formatting.css

60 ms

contribute.css

40 ms

textsizer.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Des.nh.gov, 9% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (420 ms) belongs to the original domain Des.nh.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

787.5 kB

After Optimization

715.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Des.nh.gov main page is 787.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 621.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 39.6 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 11.2 kB, which is 28% 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 32.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 621.2 kB
  • After minification 615.6 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. Des NH images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 86.2 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Des.nh.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (66%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Des NH. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

des.nh.gov

des.nh.gov

106 ms

nhgov.css

nhgov.css

28 ms

formatting.css

formatting.css

60 ms

contribute.css

contribute.css

40 ms

textsizer.js

textsizer.js

47 ms

date.js

date.js

45 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

47 ms

element.js

element.js

47 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

35 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

64 ms

main.js

main.js

73 ms

smallA.gif

smallA.gif

34 ms

mediumA.gif

mediumA.gif

33 ms

largeA.gif

largeA.gif

33 ms

400x25officialsiteGREEN.gif

400x25officialsiteGREEN.gif

33 ms

trans.gif

trans.gif

31 ms

804x100summer.jpg

804x100summer.jpg

50 ms

260x100logo.gif

260x100logo.gif

56 ms

arrow_blue.gif

arrow_blue.gif

53 ms

onestop.gif

onestop.gif

53 ms

alertGraphic.jpg

alertGraphic.jpg

53 ms

enews.gif

enews.gif

55 ms

twitter_logo.gif

twitter_logo.gif

73 ms

nhec-logo.gif

nhec-logo.gif

74 ms

freedom-award.jpg

freedom-award.jpg

420 ms

calendar-graphic.gif

calendar-graphic.gif

74 ms

arrow_blue0.gif

arrow_blue0.gif

74 ms

325x80welcome.gif

325x80welcome.gif

75 ms

tabLT.gif

tabLT.gif

98 ms

tabTLT.gif

tabTLT.gif

98 ms

tabTBK.gif

tabTBK.gif

94 ms

arrow_orange.gif

arrow_orange.gif

97 ms

tabTRT.gif

tabTRT.gif

98 ms

tabBK.gif

tabBK.gif

146 ms

tabRT.gif

tabRT.gif

145 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

154 ms

icon_pdf.gif

icon_pdf.gif

155 ms

iconseal.gif

iconseal.gif

95 ms

element_main.js

element_main.js

40 ms

translate_24dp.png

translate_24dp.png

62 ms

l

l

38 ms

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

googlelogo_color_42x16dp.png

66 ms

print.css

print.css

22 ms

Accessibility Review

des.nh.gov accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

des.nh.gov best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

des.nh.gov SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

des.nh.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Des NH. 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: