Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

siouxcountyia.gov

Sioux County, Iowa - Official County Website

Page Load Speed

417 ms in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

194 ms

Page Rendered

51 ms

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About Website

Visit siouxcountyia.gov now to see the best up-to-date Sioux County Ia content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about siouxcountyia.gov

Welcome to the official Sioux County, Iowa website, featuring news, information and links from Sioux County government departments.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Siouxcountyia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 245 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

siouxcountyia.gov performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

siouxcountyia.gov

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Siouxcountyia.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (172 ms) belongs to the original domain Siouxcountyia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

812.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Siouxcountyia.gov main page is 1.0 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 408.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 177 B
  • After minification 177 B
  • After compression 155 B

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 22 B or 12% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 408.3 kB
  • After minification 321.0 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, Sioux County Ia needs image optimization as it can save up to 87.3 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 321.6 kB
  • After minification 321.6 kB
  • After compression 292.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 93.9 kB

  • Original 293.0 kB
  • After minification 244.6 kB
  • After compression 199.1 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. Siouxcountyia.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

siouxcountyia.gov accessibility score

92

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

SEO Factors

siouxcountyia.gov SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Siouxcountyia.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 Siouxcountyia.gov main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sioux County Ia. 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: