Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

tsp.gov

Home | Thrift Savings Plan

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

About Website

Visit tsp.gov now to see the best up-to-date Tsp content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tsp.gov

The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is a retirement savings and investment plan for Federal employees and members of the uniformed services, including the Ready Reserve. It was established by Congress in th...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tsp.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1.7 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

tsp.gov performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.665

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tsp.gov

12 ms

www.tsp.gov

62 ms

main.css

18 ms

ava_chat_bot.css

55 ms

js

458 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Tsp.gov, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) belongs to the original domain Tsp.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Tsp.gov main page is 1.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 910.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 36.1 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 5.3 kB, which is 15% 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 28.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 79.6 kB

  • Original 910.7 kB
  • After minification 831.1 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. Tsp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 97.1 kB
  • After compression 91.5 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 382 B

  • Original 78.7 kB
  • After minification 78.7 kB
  • After compression 78.3 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. Tsp.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (49%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tsp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tsp.gov accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

tsp.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

tsp.gov SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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