Tools & Wizards About Us
pennsylvania.gov screenshot

Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

pennsylvania.gov

PA.GOV | The Official Website for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Page Load Speed

190 ms in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

116 ms

Page Rendered

52 ms

pennsylvania.gov screenshot

About Website

Welcome to pennsylvania.gov homepage info - get ready to check Pennsylvania best content right away, or after learning these important things about pennsylvania.gov

The official website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Find information and services from Pennsylvania state government agencies.

Visit pennsylvania.gov

Key Findings

We analyzed Pennsylvania.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 168 ms 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

pennsylvania.gov performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pennsylvania.gov

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Pennsylvania.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22 ms) belongs to the original domain Pennsylvania.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 731.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pennsylvania.gov main page is 4.6 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 39 B
  • After minification 39 B
  • After compression 33 B

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 6 B or 15% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 728.4 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Obviously, Pennsylvania needs image optimization as it can save up to 728.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 84.1 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 81.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 108.6 kB
  • After minification 108.3 kB
  • After compression 107.6 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. Pennsylvania.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

pennsylvania.gov

pennsylvania.gov

22 ms

Accessibility Review

pennsylvania.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

pennsylvania.gov best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pennsylvania.gov SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pennsylvania.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 Pennsylvania.gov main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

pennsylvania.gov

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