Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

fastdemocracy.com

FastDemocracy - Be informed. Be effective. Be social.

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

870 ms

Page Rendered

679 ms

fastdemocracy.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fastdemocracy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fastdemocracy.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fastdemocracy.com

47 ms

fastdemocracy.com

110 ms

gtm.js

97 ms

sgr.css

33 ms

style.min.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Fastdemocracy.com, 32% (21 requests) were made to Unicons.iconscout.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (386 ms) relates to the external source Unicons.iconscout.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 251.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

759.0 kB

After Optimization

507.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Fastdemocracy.com main page is 759.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 377.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 90.0 kB

  • Original 119.8 kB
  • After minification 110.7 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 90.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 377.9 kB
  • After minification 329.1 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, Fast Democracy needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.8 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 90.5 kB
  • After compression 87.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 170.4 kB
  • After minification 170.2 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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. Fastdemocracy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (71%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fast Democracy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fastdemocracy.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

fastdemocracy.com 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

SEO Factors

fastdemocracy.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fastdemocracy.com 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 Fastdemocracy.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Fast Democracy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: