Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

northflorida.va.gov

VA North Florida/South Georgia Health Care | Veterans Affairs

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

533 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northflorida.va.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 533 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northflorida.va.gov performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,530 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northflorida.va.gov

533 ms

north-florida-health-care

237 ms

165 ms

polyfills.entry.js

386 ms

web-components.css

276 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Northflorida.va.gov, 38% (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 (1.3 sec) relates to the external source S3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Northflorida.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

-81%

Potential reduce by 86.6 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 99.5 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. 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 86.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 211.9 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. North Florida 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. Northflorida.va.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (66%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Florida 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

northflorida.va.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

northflorida.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

northflorida.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 Northflorida.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 Northflorida.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 North Florida VA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: