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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

afge.org

AFGE | Home Page

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

413 ms

afge.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing AFGE content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about afge.org

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afge.org page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 1.9 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.

Performance Metrics

afge.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.501

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.afge.org

256 ms

screen.css

9 ms

custom.css

13 ms

displaybox-2012.css

15 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Afge.org, 13% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (405 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 497.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afge.org 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 27.1 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.3 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 996.9 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. AFGE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 169.5 kB

  • Original 310.2 kB
  • After minification 310.1 kB
  • After compression 140.7 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 169.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 248.7 kB

  • Original 300.4 kB
  • After minification 289.0 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 248.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (45%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.afge.org

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256 ms

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9 ms

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13 ms

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15 ms

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25 ms

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76 ms

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24 ms

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24 ms

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Accessibility Review

afge.org 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.org 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

afge.org SEO score

83

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.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 Afge.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

afge.org

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: