Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

benefits.oregon.gov

Oregon Department of Human Services : Medical, Food, Cash and Child Care Benefits : Benefits : State of Oregon

Page Load Speed

28.5 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

25.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Benefits.oregon.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 28.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

benefits.oregon.gov performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

benefits

207 ms

index.aspx

190 ms

bundle.min.css

472 ms

bundle.min.css

478 ms

bundle.min.js

484 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Benefits.oregon.gov, 22% (14 requests) were made to Cdn.oregon.gov and 9% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (14.8 sec) relates to the external source Static.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 444.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

598.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Benefits.oregon.gov main page is 1.0 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. Javascripts take 452.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 58.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 71.5 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, Benefits Oregon needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 452.7 kB
  • After minification 451.2 kB
  • After compression 399.1 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 53.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 320.5 kB

  • Original 431.9 kB
  • After minification 431.7 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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. Benefits.oregon.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (60%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Benefits Oregon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

benefits.oregon.gov accessibility score

91

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

benefits.oregon.gov best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

benefits.oregon.gov SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Benefits.oregon.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 Benefits.oregon.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 description is not detected on the main page of Benefits Oregon. 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: