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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

volunteer.va.gov

VA Center for Development and Civic Engagement Home

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

585 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

358 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Volunteer.va.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 585 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

volunteer.va.gov performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.738

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

volunteer.va.gov

585 ms

bootstrap.css

112 ms

layout.css

99 ms

accessibleMegaMenu.css

57 ms

health.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Volunteer.va.gov, 12% (15 requests) were made to Va.gov and 7% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Volunteer.va.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 735.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Volunteer.va.gov main page is 3.3 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 73.8 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 66.9 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 21.7 kB, which is 25% 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 73.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Volunteer VA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 315.9 kB

  • Original 954.7 kB
  • After minification 781.1 kB
  • After compression 638.8 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 315.9 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 268.7 kB

  • Original 569.4 kB
  • After minification 501.7 kB
  • After compression 300.7 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. Volunteer.va.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 268.7 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (36%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Volunteer 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 28 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

volunteer.va.gov accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

volunteer.va.gov best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

volunteer.va.gov SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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