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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

community.federalsoup.com

FederalSoup - Your Federal Career and Benefits Explained

Page Load Speed

42 sec in total

First Response

342 ms

Resources Loaded

30.8 sec

Page Rendered

10.9 sec

About Website

Visit community.federalsoup.com now to see the best up-to-date Community Federal Soup content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about community.federalsoup.com

Federal Soup provides federal employees a one-stop resource for information on their career, pay, benefits, financial planning, and retirement options.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Community.federalsoup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 342 ms and then it took 41.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

community.federalsoup.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home.aspx

342 ms

gpt.js

864 ms

base.css

386 ms

core.js

517 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

1317 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Community.federalsoup.com, 13% (9 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 11% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 786.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

744.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Community.federalsoup.com main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 781.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 82.3 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 26.7 kB, which is 24% 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 88.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 423.3 kB
  • After minification 408.2 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. Community Federal Soup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 487.8 kB

  • Original 781.2 kB
  • After minification 766.6 kB
  • After compression 293.4 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 487.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 195.2 kB

  • Original 217.9 kB
  • After minification 131.0 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. Community.federalsoup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (66%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Community Federal Soup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

community.federalsoup.com accessibility score

74

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

community.federalsoup.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

community.federalsoup.com SEO score

84

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 Community.federalsoup.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 Community.federalsoup.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Community Federal Soup. 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: