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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

blog.grants.gov

Grants.gov Community Blog – Connecting the grant community to #LearnGrants

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

850 ms

Page Rendered

252 ms

About Website

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Official blog of Grants.gov featuring news, tips & training for federal grant applicants and grant-making agencies in the U.S. federal government. #LearnGrants

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.grants.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.grants.gov performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.grants.gov

14 ms

grantsgovprod.wordpress.com

56 ms

webfont.js

171 ms

style.css

203 ms

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.grants.gov, 14% (6 requests) were made to Grantsgovprod.wordpress.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (480 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

797.2 kB

After Optimization

666.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.grants.gov main page is 797.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 518.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 120.6 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 168.0 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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 120.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 518.0 kB
  • After minification 508.9 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. Blog Grants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 676 B

  • Original 88.0 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 87.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 272 B

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Blog.grants.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (56%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Grants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blog.grants.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

blog.grants.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blog.grants.gov SEO score

90

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

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 Blog.grants.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 Blog.grants.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 Blog Grants. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: