Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

echo.epa.gov

Enforcement and Compliance History Online | US EPA

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

180 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Echo.epa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

echo.epa.gov performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

echo.epa.gov

3001 ms

echo.epa.gov

561 ms

s.css

236 ms

system.base.css

144 ms

system.menus.css

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Echo.epa.gov, 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Gateway.answerscloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Echo.epa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 492.4 kB (62%)

Content Size

792.4 kB

After Optimization

300.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Echo.epa.gov main page is 792.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 334.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 34.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 28.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 126.4 kB
  • After minification 71.1 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. Obviously, Echo EPA needs image optimization as it can save up to 55.3 kB or 44% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 213.1 kB

  • Original 334.3 kB
  • After minification 310.9 kB
  • After compression 121.2 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 213.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 195.1 kB

  • Original 294.6 kB
  • After minification 258.2 kB
  • After compression 99.4 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. Echo.epa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (67%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Echo EPA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

echo.epa.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

echo.epa.gov best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

echo.epa.gov SEO score

91

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

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 Echo.epa.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 Echo.epa.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

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