Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

foster.house.gov

Congressman Bill Foster | Representing the 11th District of Illinois

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Foster.house.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 94 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

foster.house.gov performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.627

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

foster.house.gov

94 ms

system.base.css

128 ms

system.menus.css

76 ms

system.messages.css

92 ms

system.theme.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Foster.house.gov, 3% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (627 ms) belongs to the original domain Foster.house.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Foster.house.gov main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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 883.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 55.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 883.3 kB
  • After minification 868.7 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. Foster House images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 414.2 kB

  • Original 591.3 kB
  • After minification 530.4 kB
  • After compression 177.1 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 414.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 367.3 kB

  • Original 445.1 kB
  • After minification 385.1 kB
  • After compression 77.9 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. Foster.house.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 367.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (64%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Foster House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 60 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

foster.house.gov accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

foster.house.gov 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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

foster.house.gov SEO score

74

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Foster.house.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 Foster.house.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Foster House. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: