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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ercot.com

Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ercot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ercot.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ercot.com

223 ms

application-ce5f5d43724f5dba720421ecc24420a7.css

149 ms

home_page-6eca843019de060465dc57e4b0c1e8ba.css

296 ms

application-04f45b4d6cdd7146aad7b046d4ac8ba5.js

368 ms

analytics.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Ercot.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (860 ms) belongs to the original domain Ercot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.6 kB (63%)

Content Size

630.5 kB

After Optimization

230.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ercot.com main page is 630.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 455.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 21.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 295.1 kB

  • Original 455.8 kB
  • After minification 160.7 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, Ercot needs image optimization as it can save up to 295.1 kB or 65% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 132.3 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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 72.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 14.4 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Ercot.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ercot. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

ercot.com

ercot.com

223 ms

application-ce5f5d43724f5dba720421ecc24420a7.css

application-ce5f5d43724f5dba720421ecc24420a7.css

149 ms

home_page-6eca843019de060465dc57e4b0c1e8ba.css

home_page-6eca843019de060465dc57e4b0c1e8ba.css

296 ms

application-04f45b4d6cdd7146aad7b046d4ac8ba5.js

application-04f45b4d6cdd7146aad7b046d4ac8ba5.js

368 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

bkgd.gif

bkgd.gif

153 ms

logoBanner.gif

logoBanner.gif

155 ms

img_home-b1.jpg

img_home-b1.jpg

331 ms

img_home-b2.jpg

img_home-b2.jpg

249 ms

ico-fb-home.png

ico-fb-home.png

246 ms

ico-twitter-home.png

ico-twitter-home.png

252 ms

ico-rss-home.png

ico-rss-home.png

391 ms

ico-linkedin-home.png

ico-linkedin-home.png

504 ms

ico-youtube-home.png

ico-youtube-home.png

650 ms

ico-phone-home.png

ico-phone-home.png

507 ms

ico_info.gif

ico_info.gif

475 ms

ico_new_win_sm.gif

ico_new_win_sm.gif

418 ms

ico_lock.gif

ico_lock.gif

618 ms

todays_outlook.js

todays_outlook.js

608 ms

conservation_state.js

conservation_state.js

694 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

operating_reserves.js

operating_reserves.js

751 ms

render_event_response

render_event_response

762 ms

render_event_response

render_event_response

860 ms

currentDayForecastSystemLoad.png

currentDayForecastSystemLoad.png

479 ms

green_normal.jpg

green_normal.jpg

394 ms

2015_SOG_Spotlight_SEL_01.png

2015_SOG_Spotlight_SEL_01.png

237 ms

jan_gis_01.png

jan_gis_01.png

352 ms

Jan_D_E_and_GIS_02.png

Jan_D_E_and_GIS_02.png

493 ms

calendar-e522d6e5f7d7a6f46e052bc6bcf21992.css

calendar-e522d6e5f7d7a6f46e052bc6bcf21992.css

400 ms

Accessibility Review

ercot.com accessibility score

88

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

ercot.com 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

ercot.com SEO score

97

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ercot.com 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 Ercot.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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