Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

scarboroughmaine.org

Town of Scarborough, Maine | Official Website

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scarboroughmaine.org page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scarboroughmaine.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,420 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scarboroughmaine.org

62 ms

www.scarboroughmaine.org

1836 ms

standard-css-simplywhite-ltr-ltr.css

10 ms

overlay.css

22 ms

allthemes-view.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Scarboroughmaine.org, 14% (11 requests) were made to Google.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to 5oepdotd09v85fsneuiess4vug8aub9d-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Scarboroughmaine.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.0 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

622.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Scarboroughmaine.org main page is 1.0 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 462.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 61.2 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 48.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 462.9 kB
  • After minification 460.7 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. Scarborough Maine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 180.9 kB

  • Original 296.5 kB
  • After minification 283.3 kB
  • After compression 115.6 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 180.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 178.3 kB

  • Original 211.3 kB
  • After minification 210.3 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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. Scarboroughmaine.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (44%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scarborough 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scarboroughmaine.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

scarboroughmaine.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

scarboroughmaine.org SEO score

92

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

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