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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

blog.neogov.com

NEOGOV Blog | HR News, Articles & Current Events

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

831 ms

Page Rendered

635 ms

About Website

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We cover the latest public sector HR management tips & topics. Catch up on events and issues that affect HRM such as onboarding, tech/software, and employee performance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.neogov.com page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.neogov.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.neogov.com

116 ms

module_111438890160_navigation.min.css

73 ms

rss_post_listing.css

138 ms

js

129 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.neogov.com, 15% (9 requests) were made to Cdn2.hubspot.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (284 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.neogov.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.neogov.com main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 811.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 105.2 kB
  • After minification 87.8 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.4 kB, which is 17% 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 88.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 172 B

  • Original 811.6 kB
  • After minification 811.4 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 NEOGOV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 239.7 kB
  • After minification 239.7 kB
  • After compression 236.4 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

-45%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 69.3 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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.neogov.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.3 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (57%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog NEOGOV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blog.neogov.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.neogov.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blog.neogov.com SEO score

91

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