Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

smartbus.org

SMART > Home

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

smartbus.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing SMART Bus content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about smartbus.org

Serving since 1967, SMART is Southeast Michigan’s only regional public transportation provider. SMART offers convenient, reliable, and safe transportation for Macomb, Oakland and Wayne Counties.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smartbus.org page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smartbus.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.388

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smartbus.org

140 ms

www.smartbus.org

441 ms

modernizr.smart.js

88 ms

dnn-admin.css

314 ms

module.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Smartbus.org, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (441 ms) belongs to the original domain Smartbus.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

984.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Smartbus.org main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 74.8 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.4 kB, which is 13% of the original size. 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 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 463.3 kB
  • After minification 428.1 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. SMART Bus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 823.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 985.2 kB
  • After compression 464.3 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 823.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 208.3 kB

  • Original 274.3 kB
  • After minification 218.3 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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. Smartbus.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (66%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SMART Bus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smartbus.org accessibility score

87

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smartbus.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

smartbus.org SEO score

69

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

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 Smartbus.org 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 Smartbus.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 description is not detected on the main page of SMART Bus. 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: