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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

portlandmaine.gov

Portland, ME | Official Website

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

875 ms

Page Rendered

103 ms

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About Website

Visit portlandmaine.gov now to see the best up-to-date Portland Maine content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about portlandmaine.gov

City Hall of Portland 389 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101, (207) 874-8300. Visit our website where we describe the unique characteristics of living and doing business in Portland, Maine. City gove...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Portlandmaine.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 978 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

portlandmaine.gov performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.965

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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91 ms

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339 ms

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53 ms

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Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Portlandmaine.gov, 30% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (465 ms) belongs to the original domain Portlandmaine.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.8 kB (78%)

Content Size

300.2 kB

After Optimization

66.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Portlandmaine.gov main page is 300.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 271.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 233.7 kB

  • Original 271.7 kB
  • After minification 271.7 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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 233.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 28.5 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (62%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Portland Maine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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91 ms

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339 ms

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53 ms

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74 ms

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81 ms

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21 ms

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42 ms

Accessibility Review

portlandmaine.gov accessibility score

86

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 progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

portlandmaine.gov best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

portlandmaine.gov SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Portlandmaine.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 Portlandmaine.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

portlandmaine.gov

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