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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

distraction.gov

Put the Phone Away or Pay | Distracted Driving | NHTSA

Page Load Speed

902 ms in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

687 ms

Page Rendered

197 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Distraction content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about distraction.gov

NHTSA’s Put the Phone Away or Pay campaign reminds drivers of the deadly dangers and the legal consequences including fines of texting behind the wheel.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Distraction.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 884 ms 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

distraction.gov performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

distraction.gov

18 ms

www.distraction.gov

166 ms

css

24 ms

main.css

144 ms

dot_analytics.js

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Distraction.gov, 18% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Adobetag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (181 ms) relates to the external source Distractionnews.nhtsawebserver.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 432.8 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

609.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Distraction.gov main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 460.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.3 kB, which is 30% 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 16.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 428.9 kB
  • After minification 422.6 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. Distraction images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 301.3 kB

  • Original 460.5 kB
  • After minification 396.4 kB
  • After compression 159.2 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 301.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 131.8 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. Distraction.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (40%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Distraction. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

distraction.gov

distraction.gov

18 ms

www.distraction.gov

www.distraction.gov

166 ms

css

css

24 ms

main.css

main.css

144 ms

dot_analytics.js

dot_analytics.js

167 ms

site_catalyst_loader.js

site_catalyst_loader.js

138 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

86 ms

vendors.js

vendors.js

177 ms

main.js

main.js

138 ms

site_catalyst_tracker.js

site_catalyst_tracker.js

135 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

23 ms

ga.js

ga.js

23 ms

amc.js

amc.js

68 ms

logo.png

logo.png

24 ms

take-the-pledge.jpg

take-the-pledge.jpg

27 ms

get-involved.jpg

get-involved.jpg

63 ms

blueprint.jpg

blueprint.jpg

61 ms

NHTSA-logo.svg

NHTSA-logo.svg

174 ms

DOT-logo.svg

DOT-logo.svg

176 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

inpage_linkid.js

inpage_linkid.js

14 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

116 ms

sitecatalyst.js

sitecatalyst.js

104 ms

transparent_fade_1px.png

transparent_fade_1px.png

99 ms

feed.php

feed.php

181 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

27 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

59 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

64 ms

NHTSA-logo.png

NHTSA-logo.png

39 ms

DOT-logo.png

DOT-logo.png

49 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf

glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf

43 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

39 ms

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s73601226313039

40 ms

Accessibility Review

distraction.gov accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

distraction.gov best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

distraction.gov SEO score

92

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 Distraction.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 Distraction.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

distraction.gov

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