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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

fhwa.org

Welcome to DGI Traffic Systems | MUTCD Roadway & Highway Signs | FHWA Highway Fonts | Clearview Traffic Fonts

Page Load Speed

577 ms in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

338 ms

Page Rendered

164 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fhwa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 502 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fhwa.org performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fhwa.org

75 ms

css

20 ms

css

34 ms

reset_glob_all.css

22 ms

layout_glob_scr.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Fhwa.org, 18% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (135 ms) belongs to the original domain Fhwa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

972.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fhwa.org main page is 1.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 987.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 2.2 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 6.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 987.8 kB
  • After minification 965.1 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. FHWA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 192 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Fhwa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FHWA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fhwa.org accessibility score

63

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

fhwa.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fhwa.org SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fhwa.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Fhwa.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 description is not detected on the main page of FHWA. 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: