Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

commerce.virginia.gov

Secretary of Commerce and Trade

Page Load Speed

685 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

333 ms

Page Rendered

310 ms

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About Website

Welcome to commerce.virginia.gov homepage info - get ready to check Commerce Virginia best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about commerce.virginia.gov

Caren Merrick, Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Office of the Governor, Glenn Youngkin, Richmond, Virginia, VA State, commonwealth

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Key Findings

We analyzed Commerce.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 643 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

commerce.virginia.gov performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.commerce.virginia.gov

42 ms

bootstrap.min.css

49 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

56 ms

styles.css

47 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Commerce.virginia.gov, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (204 ms) relates to the external source Developer.virginia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

743.9 kB

After Optimization

702.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Commerce.virginia.gov main page is 743.9 kB. 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. Javascripts take 486.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 30.5 kB
  • After minification 19.5 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 11.0 kB, which is 36% 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 25.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 180.2 kB
  • After minification 167.1 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. Commerce Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 537 B

  • Original 486.1 kB
  • After minification 486.0 kB
  • After compression 485.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. Commerce.virginia.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (50%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Commerce Virginia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

commerce.virginia.gov 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

commerce.virginia.gov 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

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

commerce.virginia.gov SEO score

87

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Commerce.virginia.gov 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 Commerce.virginia.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 Commerce Virginia. 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: