Access firstnet.gov. FirstNet Authority | First Responder Network Authority

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

463 ms

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The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) as an independent authority within NTIA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstnet.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 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.

firstnet.gov

243 ms

system.base.css

44 ms

system.menus.css

60 ms

system.messages.css

52 ms

system.theme.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Firstnet.gov, 15% (22 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (243 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstnet.gov.

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Firstnet.gov main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 233.6 kB

Original 349.6 kB
After minification 338.9 kB
After compression 116.0 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 233.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 39.3 kB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.4 MB

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. First Net images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 685.4 kB

Original 914.1 kB
After minification 714.1 kB
After compression 228.7 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 685.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 319.2 kB

Original 383.2 kB
After minification 309.8 kB
After compression 64.1 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. Firstnet.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 319.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

77

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Net. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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 Firstnet.gov 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 Firstnet.gov 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of First Net. 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: