Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

polkelections.com

Polk County Supervisor of Elections > Home

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

polkelections.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Polkelections.com page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

polkelections.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

polkelections.com

135 ms

www.polkelections.com

391 ms

default.css

13 ms

module.css

12 ms

module.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Polkelections.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Microsofttranslator.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Microsofttranslator.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 958.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Polkelections.com main page is 4.7 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 18.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 173.1 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Polk Elections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 656.6 kB

  • Original 847.6 kB
  • After minification 677.3 kB
  • After compression 191.1 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 656.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 110.5 kB

  • Original 127.3 kB
  • After minification 83.2 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Polkelections.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 110.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (32%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Polk Elections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

polkelections.com accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

polkelections.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

polkelections.com SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Polkelections.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 Polkelections.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

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