Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

columbiasc.va.gov

VA Columbia South Carolina Health Care | Veterans Affairs

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbiasc.va.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbiasc.va.gov performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.899

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbiasc.va.gov

60 ms

columbia-south-carolina-health-care

303 ms

182 ms

polyfills.entry.js

423 ms

web-components.css

289 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 Columbiasc.va.gov, 39% (17 requests) were made to Prod-va-gov-assets.s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com and 27% (12 requests) were made to Va.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source S3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

992.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Columbiasc.va.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 715.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 84.7 kB

  • Original 105.3 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 84.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 166.8 kB
  • After minification 162.5 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. Columbia Sc VA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 164 B

  • Original 715.9 kB
  • After minification 715.9 kB
  • After compression 715.7 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 96.5 kB
  • After compression 93.2 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. Columbiasc.va.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (68%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbia Sc VA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

columbiasc.va.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

columbiasc.va.gov best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

columbiasc.va.gov SEO score

99

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

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 Columbiasc.va.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 Columbiasc.va.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 Columbia Sc VA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: