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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 66

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

store.transportation.org

AASHTO Store: Browse Transportation Publications and Online Training

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Store.transportation.org page load time and found that the first response time was 38 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

store.transportation.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

store.transportation.org

38 ms

store.transportation.org

18 ms

store.transportation.org

109 ms

css

40 ms

bootstrap.min.css

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 247 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (229 requests) were addressed to the original Store.transportation.org, 3% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (195 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (14%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Store.transportation.org main page is 7.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 271.6 kB

  • Original 294.7 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 125.7 kB, which is 43% 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 271.6 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 217.2 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Store Transportation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 614.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 905.1 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 614.3 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 128.6 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 122.2 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. Store.transportation.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (27%)

Requests Now

240

After Optimization

176

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 240 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Store Transportation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

store.transportation.org accessibility score

61

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 match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

store.transportation.org best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

store.transportation.org SEO score

66

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Store.transportation.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Store.transportation.org 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 Store Transportation. 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: