Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

state.nc.us

Home | nc.gov

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

743 ms

Page Rendered

836 ms

state.nc.us screenshot

About Website

Visit state.nc.us now to see the best up-to-date State content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about state.nc.us

NC.gov is the official website of the State of North Carolina. Get access to all state agencies, learn about North Carolina, about NC state government, and about how to start a business here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed State.nc.us page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.6 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

state.nc.us performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.528

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

state.nc.us

59 ms

www.nc.gov

57 ms

system.base.css

21 ms

system.menus.css

22 ms

system.theme.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original State.nc.us, 84% (91 requests) were made to Nc.gov and 10% (11 requests) were made to Ncgov.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (287 ms) relates to the external source Ncgov.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (51%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of State.nc.us main page is 3.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 71.2 kB
  • After minification 65.0 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 58.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 981.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 877.1 kB
  • After compression 296.4 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 981.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 735.6 kB

  • Original 886.6 kB
  • After minification 811.1 kB
  • After compression 151.0 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. State.nc.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 735.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (73%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

state.nc.us accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

state.nc.us best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

state.nc.us SEO score

86

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

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 State.nc.us 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 State.nc.us 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 State. 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: