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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

cia.gov

We are the Nation's first line of defense - CIA

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

469 ms

Page Rendered

852 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 1.3 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

cia.gov performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cia.gov

95 ms

pubkey.js

16 ms

verification.js

30 ms

app-27a96fb43c18a8d57985.js

65 ms

framework-b4d22ee71054f34b2947.js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Cia.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (95 ms) belongs to the original domain Cia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 397.4 kB (48%)

Content Size

832.2 kB

After Optimization

434.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cia.gov main page is 832.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 301.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 224.2 kB

  • Original 271.9 kB
  • After minification 271.7 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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 224.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 301.2 kB
  • After minification 287.1 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. CIA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 159.0 kB

  • Original 259.0 kB
  • After minification 259.0 kB
  • After compression 100.0 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 159.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (50%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CIA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cia.gov

www.cia.gov

95 ms

pubkey.js

pubkey.js

16 ms

verification.js

verification.js

30 ms

app-27a96fb43c18a8d57985.js

app-27a96fb43c18a8d57985.js

65 ms

framework-b4d22ee71054f34b2947.js

framework-b4d22ee71054f34b2947.js

65 ms

webpack-runtime-b48e369c38601658b78d.js

webpack-runtime-b48e369c38601658b78d.js

65 ms

CIA-Seal-BW@2x@2x-bd6f6da4ab65dc1fe7aeb76fe043f66f.png

CIA-Seal-BW@2x@2x-bd6f6da4ab65dc1fe7aeb76fe043f66f.png

15 ms

Threads_About@2x-b4c9b65429f47818297535a7e3b29801.png

Threads_About@2x-b4c9b65429f47818297535a7e3b29801.png

35 ms

CIA-AcroMarque@3x-1c4dabbb548e555c2b0978aaf4821113.png

CIA-AcroMarque@3x-1c4dabbb548e555c2b0978aaf4821113.png

15 ms

GT-America-Extended-Light-0cda5f13b4946bd0aeeba402ce3cdc1d.woff

GT-America-Extended-Light-0cda5f13b4946bd0aeeba402ce3cdc1d.woff

15 ms

GT-America-Extended-Black-5c0af80fb8709e71ecd9e7188c5db6d5.woff

GT-America-Extended-Black-5c0af80fb8709e71ecd9e7188c5db6d5.woff

25 ms

GT-America-Expanded-Black-4302f568b9fa7de4b856d16de35014e1.woff

GT-America-Expanded-Black-4302f568b9fa7de4b856d16de35014e1.woff

24 ms

GT-Sectra-Fine-Bold-7260836d804785006245ed93e012c0e1.woff

GT-Sectra-Fine-Bold-7260836d804785006245ed93e012c0e1.woff

13 ms

GT-America-Mono-Regular-1dc10b5a7873220ecf1e92dcc608bd88.woff

GT-America-Mono-Regular-1dc10b5a7873220ecf1e92dcc608bd88.woff

50 ms

Accessibility Review

cia.gov accessibility score

90

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 IDs are not unique

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cia.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cia.gov SEO score

82

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cia.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cia.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

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