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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

vermontelectric.coop

Safe, Affordable & Reliable Energy — Vermont Electric Coop

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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About Website

Visit vermontelectric.coop now to see the best up-to-date Vermont Electric content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vermontelectric.coop

Vermont Electric Cooperative is a member owned electric distribution utility that provides safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to over 32,000 members in 75 communities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vermontelectric.coop page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 1.7 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

vermontelectric.coop performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vermontelectric.coop

125 ms

www.vermontelectric.coop

609 ms

jcemediabox.css

53 ms

style.css

54 ms

rokbox-style.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Vermontelectric.coop, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (609 ms) belongs to the original domain Vermontelectric.coop.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.4 kB (23%)

Content Size

855.3 kB

After Optimization

660.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vermontelectric.coop main page is 855.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 593.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 21.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 593.8 kB
  • After minification 581.2 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. Vermont Electric images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 111.5 kB

  • Original 176.9 kB
  • After minification 173.9 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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 111.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Vermontelectric.coop needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (38%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vermont Electric. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vermontelectric.coop

vermontelectric.coop

125 ms

www.vermontelectric.coop

www.vermontelectric.coop

609 ms

jcemediabox.css

jcemediabox.css

53 ms

style.css

style.css

54 ms

rokbox-style.css

rokbox-style.css

53 ms

jcemediabox.js

jcemediabox.js

102 ms

mediaobject.js

mediaobject.js

55 ms

default.js

default.js

73 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

160 ms

caption.js

caption.js

97 ms

rokbox.js

rokbox.js

120 ms

menu.css

menu.css

105 ms

DropDownMenuX_Packed.js

DropDownMenuX_Packed.js

121 ms

system.css

system.css

144 ms

general.css

general.css

147 ms

template.css

template.css

151 ms

fader.js

fader.js

181 ms

layouts.css

layouts.css

27 ms

components.css

components.css

45 ms

modules.css

modules.css

49 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

48 ms

misc.css

misc.css

48 ms

forms.css

forms.css

50 ms

header.gif

header.gif

119 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

117 ms

nav-small-right.gif

nav-small-right.gif

73 ms

nav-small-left.gif

nav-small-left.gif

91 ms

searchButton.gif

searchButton.gif

72 ms

home-page-group.jpg

home-page-group.jpg

115 ms

slide-show-bg.jpg

slide-show-bg.jpg

195 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

140 ms

sunday.jpg

sunday.jpg

195 ms

webblock-fa-2.jpg

webblock-fa-2.jpg

218 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

144 ms

fb.png

fb.png

162 ms

right-member-information-center-header.jpg

right-member-information-center-header.jpg

193 ms

new-access-button.jpg

new-access-button.jpg

219 ms

right-outage-center.jpg

right-outage-center.jpg

234 ms

vec-community-fund-logo.jpg

vec-community-fund-logo.jpg

268 ms

solar-button.jpg

solar-button.jpg

268 ms

beat-the-peak-module.jpg

beat-the-peak-module.jpg

287 ms

pshift.jpg

pshift.jpg

263 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

280 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

292 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

315 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

317 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

321 ms

6.jpg

6.jpg

342 ms

latest-news-middle.jpg

latest-news-middle.jpg

324 ms

latest-news.jpg

latest-news.jpg

336 ms

latest-news-bottom.jpg

latest-news-bottom.jpg

361 ms

ga.js

ga.js

37 ms

like.php

like.php

156 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

23 ms

popup.html

popup.html

271 ms

tooltip.html

tooltip.html

280 ms

qeKvIRsJabD.js

qeKvIRsJabD.js

155 ms

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

170 ms

Accessibility Review

vermontelectric.coop accessibility score

88

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Best Practices

vermontelectric.coop 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

vermontelectric.coop SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Vermontelectric.coop 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 Vermontelectric.coop 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

vermontelectric.coop

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Vermont Electric. 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: