Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

whatcomcovid.com

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Whatcom County, WA - Official Website

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

whatcomcovid.com screenshot

About Website

Visit whatcomcovid.com now to see the best up-to-date Whatcom COVID content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about whatcomcovid.com

Information about 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatcomcovid.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whatcomcovid.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whatcomcovid.com

41 ms

720 ms

gtm.js

32 ms

gtm.js

92 ms

antiforgery

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Whatcomcovid.com, 58% (33 requests) were made to Whatcomcounty.us and 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Whatcomcounty.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

465.6 kB

After Optimization

359.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Whatcomcovid.com main page is 465.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 277.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

  • Original 111.3 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. 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 88.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 12.3 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. Whatcom COVID images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 277.9 kB
  • After minification 277.8 kB
  • After compression 260.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 64.0 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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. Whatcomcovid.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (55%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whatcom COVID. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

whatcomcovid.com accessibility score

90

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

whatcomcovid.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

whatcomcovid.com SEO score

82

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Whatcomcovid.com 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 Whatcomcovid.com 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 Whatcom COVID. 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: