Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

search.bea.gov

Official Guide to Government Information and Services | USAGov

Page Load Speed

829 ms in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

519 ms

Page Rendered

265 ms

search.bea.gov screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.bea.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 784 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

search.bea.gov performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

search.bea.gov

45 ms

www.bea.gov

63 ms

reset_global.css

13 ms

bea_new.css

20 ms

jquery.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Search.bea.gov, 78% (43 requests) were made to Bea.gov and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (114 ms) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

752.0 kB

After Optimization

449.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Search.bea.gov main page is 752.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 429.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 7.5 kB, which is 22% 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 27.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 429.7 kB
  • After minification 357.1 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. Obviously, Search Bea needs image optimization as it can save up to 72.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 177.1 kB

  • Original 257.3 kB
  • After minification 232.1 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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 177.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Search.bea.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (29%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Bea. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

search.bea.gov accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

search.bea.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

SEO Factors

search.bea.gov SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Search.bea.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 Search.bea.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Search Bea. 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: