pa.gov website review

About 954 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.8 s faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.4 s.

69 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (606 KiB).

3 images could be 248 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

About 320 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 52 (desktop: 77). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.4 MB and 506 ms of main-thread time.

43 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 208 ms of main-thread work and 303 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Google CDN costs a phone 96 ms of main-thread work and 356 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

coveo.com costs a phone 39 ms of main-thread work and 383 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 145 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Desktop scores 77 but mobile only 52. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

2 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

The first text or image appears after 8.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 18.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Natural landscape of Pennsylvania”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 20.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 231 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 133 ms to 133 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 139 requests on a phone: scripts 1.8 MB (87), fonts 436 KiB (9) and stylesheets 357 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example GettyImages-565972687-1 at 1,280 px wide, shown at 278 px. Resized copies would save about 95 KiB.

2 images (256 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.86 g of CO₂e: 103.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

5 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

The homepage links to 22 pages on pa.gov and 22 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no https://www.pa.gov/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

https://www.pa.gov/agencies is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/ and https://www.pa.gov/en all use the title “Home | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 19 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 386 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

Loading the homepage contacts 17 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.