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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

cbp.gov

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

794 ms

Page Rendered

398 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cbp.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cbp.gov performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.4

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cbp.gov

59 ms

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20 ms

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56 ms

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44 ms

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53 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Cbp.gov, 6% (4 requests) were made to Dhs.gov and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (221 ms) relates to the external source Dhs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 333.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cbp.gov 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 860.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 127.8 kB
  • After minification 96.6 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 31.2 kB, which is 24% 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 108.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 860.7 kB
  • After minification 842.3 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. Cbp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 439.9 kB
  • After minification 439.3 kB
  • After compression 404.5 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

-56%

Potential reduce by 171.4 kB

  • Original 304.8 kB
  • After minification 290.3 kB
  • After compression 133.4 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. Cbp.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 171.4 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (53%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cbp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cbp.gov

www.cbp.gov

59 ms

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20 ms

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56 ms

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44 ms

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53 ms

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54 ms

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21 ms

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50 ms

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39 ms

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173 ms

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173 ms

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174 ms

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173 ms

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174 ms

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45 ms

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27 ms

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29 ms

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31 ms

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30 ms

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27 ms

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124 ms

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130 ms

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29 ms

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109 ms

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193 ms

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193 ms

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136 ms

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183 ms

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12 ms

Accessibility Review

cbp.gov accessibility score

91

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cbp.gov best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cbp.gov SEO score

84

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

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 Cbp.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 Cbp.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

cbp.gov

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Cbp. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: