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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

capitolhearings.org

Congressional Chronicle - Members of Congress, Hearings and More | C-SPAN.org

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Capitol Hearings content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about capitolhearings.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capitolhearings.org page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capitolhearings.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.12

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Capitolhearings.org, 50% (33 requests) were made to Static.c-spanvideo.org and 12% (8 requests) were made to Ximage.c-spanvideo.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (607 ms) relates to the external source Ximage.c-spanvideo.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Capitolhearings.org main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 68.0 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 68.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 445.1 kB
  • After minification 424.8 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. Capitol Hearings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 33 B

  • Original 68.9 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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. Capitolhearings.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (44%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Capitol Hearings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

capitolhearings.org accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

capitolhearings.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

capitolhearings.org SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Capitolhearings.org 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 Capitolhearings.org 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

capitolhearings.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Capitol Hearings. 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: