Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

msc.fema.gov

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Msc.fema.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

msc.fema.gov performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

portal

29 ms

home

83 ms

analytics.js

58 ms

js

61 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Msc.fema.gov, 16% (11 requests) were made to Js.arcgis.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) belongs to the original domain Msc.fema.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 860.8 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

838.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Msc.fema.gov 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 31.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 174.1 kB
  • After minification 169.9 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. Msc FEMA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 468.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 907.4 kB
  • After compression 551.4 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 468.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 357.5 kB

  • Original 463.2 kB
  • After minification 395.0 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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. Msc.fema.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 357.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (67%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Msc FEMA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

msc.fema.gov accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

msc.fema.gov best practices score

67

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

msc.fema.gov SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Msc.fema.gov 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 Msc.fema.gov 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 Msc FEMA. 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: