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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

voterguide.sos.ca.gov

Official Voter Information Guide | California Secretary of State

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

370 ms

Resources Loaded

840 ms

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

Visit voterguide.sos.ca.gov now to see the best up-to-date Voter Guide Sos Ca content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about voterguide.sos.ca.gov

Official Voter Information Guide, November 8, 2022, California General Election.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voterguide.sos.ca.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 370 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voterguide.sos.ca.gov performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

voterguide.sos.ca.gov

370 ms

css

41 ms

normalize.css

11 ms

main.css

26 ms

vig.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Voterguide.sos.ca.gov, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) relates to the external source Elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.0 kB (46%)

Content Size

324.0 kB

After Optimization

175.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Voterguide.sos.ca.gov main page is 324.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 164.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 2.4 kB, which is 19% 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 9.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 95.1 kB
  • After minification 94.0 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. Voter Guide Sos Ca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 164.4 kB
  • After minification 164.4 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 94.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Voterguide.sos.ca.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Voter Guide Sos Ca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

voterguide.sos.ca.gov

voterguide.sos.ca.gov

370 ms

css

css

41 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

11 ms

main.css

main.css

26 ms

vig.css

vig.css

32 ms

ga-async.js

ga-async.js

31 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

12 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

22 ms

main.js

main.js

33 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

80 ms

background.png

background.png

81 ms

vote-ca.jpg

vote-ca.jpg

423 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

59 ms

background-sidebar.jpg

background-sidebar.jpg

75 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

75 ms

yellow-star-larger.png

yellow-star-larger.png

73 ms

seal.png

seal.png

73 ms

sos-signature.jpg

sos-signature.jpg

75 ms

arrow-up.png

arrow-up.png

76 ms

three-yellow-stars-72x10.png

three-yellow-stars-72x10.png

76 ms

collect

collect

61 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

8 ms

Accessibility Review

voterguide.sos.ca.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

voterguide.sos.ca.gov best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

voterguide.sos.ca.gov SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Voterguide.sos.ca.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 Voterguide.sos.ca.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

voterguide.sos.ca.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Voter Guide Sos Ca. 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: