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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

ri.gov

RI.gov: Rhode Island Government

Page Load Speed

893 ms in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

708 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ri.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 835 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ri.gov performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ri.gov

58 ms

portal.min.css

45 ms

portal.min.js

45 ms

menu.js

29 ms

webfont.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Ri.gov, 13% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (140 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

234.6 kB

After Optimization

181.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ri.gov main page is 234.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 106.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 20.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 83.3 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, RI needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.1 kB or 22% 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 8.6 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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 8.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 261 B

  • Original 29.7 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. Ri.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RI. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ri.gov

www.ri.gov

58 ms

portal.min.css

portal.min.css

45 ms

portal.min.js

portal.min.js

45 ms

menu.js

menu.js

29 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

98 ms

ga.js

ga.js

104 ms

logo.png

logo.png

77 ms

gov.png

gov.png

28 ms

ancor.png

ancor.png

77 ms

gulls.jpg

gulls.jpg

30 ms

totop.png

totop.png

29 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

76 ms

css

css

140 ms

print.css

print.css

75 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

39 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

Accessibility Review

ri.gov accessibility score

87

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

ri.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

SEO Factors

ri.gov SEO score

94

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ri.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 Ri.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of RI. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: