Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

nctc.fws.gov

National Conservation Training Center | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

687 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

562 ms

About Website

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation Training Center, frequently referred to as NCTC, leads the nation with training and education for natural resource managers to meet the goal ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nctc.fws.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 687 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nctc.fws.gov performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

687 ms

national-conservation-training-center

335 ms

js

96 ms

siteanalyze_6659.js

44 ms

Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Nctc.fws.gov, 14% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Fws.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (36%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Nctc.fws.gov main page is 4.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 91.1 kB

  • Original 111.2 kB
  • After minification 111.2 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 91.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 218.0 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Nctc Fws images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 350.5 kB

  • Original 484.3 kB
  • After minification 484.3 kB
  • After compression 133.8 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 350.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 171.4 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. Nctc.fws.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (36%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nctc Fws. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nctc.fws.gov accessibility score

92

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

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

nctc.fws.gov best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nctc.fws.gov SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Nctc.fws.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 Nctc.fws.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 data is detected on the main page of Nctc Fws. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: