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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

elections.nhcgov.com

Board of Elections | New Hanover County, NC

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elections.nhcgov.com page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elections.nhcgov.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,700 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elections.nhcgov.com

158 ms

508 ms

gtm.js

67 ms

gtm.js

98 ms

antiforgery

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Elections.nhcgov.com, 65% (37 requests) were made to Nhcgov.com and 19% (11 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Nhcgov.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Elections.nhcgov.com main page is 1.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 886.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 146.4 kB
  • After minification 138.9 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. 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 120.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 886.9 kB
  • After minification 886.9 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. Elections Nhcgov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 105.4 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Elections.nhcgov.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (64%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elections Nhcgov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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elections.nhcgov.com

158 ms

508 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

67 ms

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gtm.js

98 ms

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antiforgery

87 ms

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129 ms

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222 ms

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441 ms

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441 ms

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444 ms

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441 ms

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Accessibility Review

elections.nhcgov.com accessibility score

93

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Best Practices

elections.nhcgov.com 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

elections.nhcgov.com SEO score

83

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Elections.nhcgov.com 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 Elections.nhcgov.com 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

elections.nhcgov.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Elections Nhcgov. 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: