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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

cerca.org

CERCA - Council for Electronic Revenue Communication Advancement

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

357 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

814 ms

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About Website

Visit cerca.org now to see the best up-to-date CERCA content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cerca.org

CERCA, Council for Electronic Revenue Communication Advancement, launched in 1994, was founded at the direct request of the Internal Revenue Service in order to provide a forum and a liaison point bet...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cerca.org page load time and found that the first response time was 357 ms and then it took 5.3 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

cerca.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.671

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cerca.org

357 ms

js

62 ms

style.min.css

26 ms

renew.css

44 ms

style.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Cerca.org, 9% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Cerca.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cerca.org main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 105.5 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 86.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 145.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, CERCA needs image optimization as it can save up to 145.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 113.4 kB
  • After compression 113.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 391 B

  • Original 47.2 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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. Cerca.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (16%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

71

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CERCA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cerca.org

cerca.org

357 ms

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62 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

26 ms

renew.css

renew.css

44 ms

style.css

style.css

30 ms

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jquery.min.js

324 ms

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jquery-migrate.min.js

71 ms

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71 ms

slick.css

slick.css

71 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

73 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

71 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

72 ms

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72 ms

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70 ms

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72 ms

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73 ms

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139 ms

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304 ms

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111 ms

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71 ms

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109 ms

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111 ms

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678 ms

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2030 ms

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2197 ms

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2053 ms

Accessibility Review

cerca.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cerca.org 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

cerca.org SEO score

84

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

    UTF-8

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

cerca.org

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