Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

pittsfield.org

Town of Pittsfield, Maine

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

457 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

796 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pittsfield.org page load time and found that the first response time was 457 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pittsfield.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pittsfield.org

457 ms

style_patriotplus.css

55 ms

modernizr.min.js

117 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

global.js

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Pittsfield.org, 5% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (457 ms) belongs to the original domain Pittsfield.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.1 kB (53%)

Content Size

245.2 kB

After Optimization

115.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Pittsfield.org main page is 245.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 80.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 71.2 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 52.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 80.3 kB
  • After minification 77.4 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. Pittsfield images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 32.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 30.0 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. Pittsfield.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (35%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pittsfield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pittsfield.org accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

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

pittsfield.org 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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

pittsfield.org SEO score

75

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

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Pittsfield.org 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 Pittsfield.org 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 Pittsfield. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: