Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

fedshirevets.gov

FedsHireVets - OPM.gov

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

646 ms

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fedshirevets.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 854 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fedshirevets.gov performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fedshirevets.gov

197 ms

styles.css

14 ms

veterans.css

26 ms

veterans_interior.css

41 ms

DropDownNav.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Fedshirevets.gov, 4% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (221 ms) relates to the external source Ssl.google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 927.6 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

531.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Fedshirevets.gov main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 99.8 kB
  • After minification 90.6 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 70.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 200.1 kB
  • After minification 196.5 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. Feds Hire Vets images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 808.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 896.2 kB
  • After compression 294.7 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 808.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. Fedshirevets.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (59%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Feds Hire Vets. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fedshirevets.gov accessibility score

94

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.

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

fedshirevets.gov 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

fedshirevets.gov SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    10646

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fedshirevets.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Fedshirevets.gov main page’s claimed encoding is 10646. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Feds Hire Vets. 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: