Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

prospect.org

TAP : The American Prospect - The American Prospect

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

566 ms

prospect.org screenshot

About Website

Visit prospect.org now to see the best up-to-date Prospect content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about prospect.org

Informed analysis of public policy and the politics of power, from a progressive perspective

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prospect.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

prospect.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.837

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value63.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

prospect.org

1604 ms

css

58 ms

date.css

50 ms

datepicker.1.7.css

52 ms

google_cse.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 172 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Prospect.org, 14% (24 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net and 7% (12 requests) were made to Ox-d.prospect.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Prospect.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (50%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Prospect.org main page is 3.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 164.5 kB

  • Original 212.9 kB
  • After minification 203.3 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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 164.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 115.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Prospect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 851.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 403.0 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 851.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 790.3 kB

  • Original 922.7 kB
  • After minification 738.0 kB
  • After compression 132.4 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. Prospect.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 790.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (61%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Prospect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

prospect.org accessibility score

81

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

prospect.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

prospect.org SEO score

85

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Prospect.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 Prospect.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

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