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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

electionguide.org

IFES Election Guide

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Electionguide.org page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

electionguide.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.178

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.electionguide.org

129 ms

bootstrap.css

101 ms

flat-ui.css

130 ms

style.css

84 ms

map.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Electionguide.org, 44% (29 requests) were made to Eguide.s3.amazonaws.com and 15% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) relates to the external source Eguide.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 826.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

780.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Electionguide.org main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 490.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 318.0 kB

  • Original 470.6 kB
  • After minification 454.8 kB
  • After compression 152.6 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 318.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 391.8 kB
  • After minification 386.5 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. Election Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 286.6 kB

  • Original 490.6 kB
  • After minification 479.7 kB
  • After compression 204.0 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 286.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 216.6 kB

  • Original 254.0 kB
  • After minification 213.4 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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. Electionguide.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 216.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (51%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Election Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.electionguide.org

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129 ms

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101 ms

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130 ms

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84 ms

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111 ms

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116 ms

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Accessibility Review

electionguide.org accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

electionguide.org best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

electionguide.org SEO score

92

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

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 Electionguide.org 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 Electionguide.org 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

electionguide.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Election Guide. 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: