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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

rec.gov

Recreation.gov - Camping, Cabins, RVs, Permits, Passes & More

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rec.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rec.gov performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value27,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.312

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value78.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rec.gov

191 ms

www.recreation.gov

68 ms

gtm.js

1025 ms

css2

416 ms

mapbox-gl.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rec.gov, 44% (19 requests) were made to Cdn.recreation.gov and 16% (7 requests) were made to Recreation.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.recreation.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

222.0 kB

After Optimization

179.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rec.gov main page is 222.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 147.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 42.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 187 B

  • Original 147.5 kB
  • After minification 147.5 kB
  • After compression 147.3 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. Rec.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (72%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rec.gov accessibility score

94

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

rec.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rec.gov SEO score

87

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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