Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

richmondindiana.gov

Richmond Indiana

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

673 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richmondindiana.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 673 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richmondindiana.gov performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.richmondindiana.gov

673 ms

jquery.min.js

459 ms

ip-utilities.js

437 ms

default.css

507 ms

PageTypes.css

720 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Richmondindiana.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Richmondindiana.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 557.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Richmondindiana.gov main page is 2.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 76.9 kB

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 76.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Richmond Indiana images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 198.6 kB

  • Original 265.0 kB
  • After minification 230.0 kB
  • After compression 66.3 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 198.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 173.6 kB

  • Original 197.6 kB
  • After minification 160.7 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. Richmondindiana.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (20%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richmond Indiana. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

richmondindiana.gov accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

richmondindiana.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

richmondindiana.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

    UTF-8

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

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