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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

afge.com

AFGE | Home Page

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

368 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

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About Website

Welcome to afge.com homepage info - get ready to check AFGE best content right away, or after learning these important things about afge.com

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union representing 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 368 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

afge.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.756

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.afge.org

368 ms

default.css

13 ms

component.css

44 ms

modernizr.custom.js

46 ms

css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Afge.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (900 ms) relates to the external source Afge.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afge.com main page is 1.7 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 74.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. AFGE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 96.9 kB
  • After minification 96.8 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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 42.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 23 B

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Afge.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (40%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AFGE. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.afge.org

www.afge.org

368 ms

default.css

default.css

13 ms

component.css

component.css

44 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

46 ms

css

css

43 ms

css

css

56 ms

style.css

style.css

33 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

34 ms

jquery

jquery

38 ms

js

js

161 ms

test.css

test.css

27 ms

jquery.dlmenu.js

jquery.dlmenu.js

42 ms

jquery.bxslider.js

jquery.bxslider.js

52 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

183 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

53 ms

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160 ms

css

css

32 ms

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7nus2m4auj

231 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

77 ms

logo_afge.png

logo_afge.png

169 ms

bg-login.png

bg-login.png

179 ms

bg-header.png

bg-header.png

170 ms

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e3a805d01cff417d9fe74187bc84bbd5.aspx

179 ms

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180 ms

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253 ms

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bg-takeaction.png

221 ms

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254 ms

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cecf0d734969485f9b851391fb671dbd.aspx

252 ms

1200-x-250_election-2024_dec11.png

1200-x-250_election-2024_dec11.png

223 ms

afge-rise-banner.png

afge-rise-banner.png

222 ms

drive-to-325.jpg

drive-to-325.jpg

255 ms

bg-becomeamember.png

bg-becomeamember.png

223 ms

bg-cta.png

bg-cta.png

253 ms

bg-footer.png

bg-footer.png

255 ms

bg-logo-small.png

bg-logo-small.png

256 ms

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179 ms

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196 ms

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220 ms

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222 ms

siteanalyze_6009831.js

siteanalyze_6009831.js

195 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

170 ms

arrowsprite1.png

arrowsprite1.png

96 ms

League_Gothic-webfont.woff

League_Gothic-webfont.woff

222 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

97 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

248 ms

fontawesome.svg

fontawesome.svg

740 ms

swearingin-rnb.jpg

swearingin-rnb.jpg

119 ms

election-result-24.png

election-result-24.png

119 ms

ai-rnb.jpg

ai-rnb.jpg

117 ms

convention-rnb.jpg

convention-rnb.jpg

119 ms

councilelections-rnb.jpg

councilelections-rnb.jpg

118 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

43 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

36 ms

drive-to-325-web-banner2_may7-24.png

drive-to-325-web-banner2_may7-24.png

102 ms

family3.png

family3.png

45 ms

news-roundup-rnb.jpg

news-roundup-rnb.jpg

51 ms

main.js

main.js

49 ms

54 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

15 ms

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

170 ms

fontawesome-webfont.svg

fontawesome-webfont.svg

900 ms

fontawesome.woff

fontawesome.woff

690 ms

fontawesome.ttf

fontawesome.ttf

655 ms

c.gif

c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

afge.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

afge.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

afge.com SEO score

82

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 Afge.com 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 Afge.com 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

afge.com

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