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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

federaldaily.com

Government News, Research and Events for Federal Employees - GovExec.com

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

458 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

407 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Federaldaily.com page load time and found that the first response time was 458 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

federaldaily.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value28,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.254

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

federalsoup.com

458 ms

Home.aspx

350 ms

gpt.js

31 ms

base.css

233 ms

core.js

392 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Federaldaily.com, 15% (8 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 12% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (633 ms) relates to the external source 1105media.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.9 kB (53%)

Content Size

990.7 kB

After Optimization

464.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Federaldaily.com main page is 990.7 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 493.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 136.7 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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 26.6 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 111.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 256.1 kB
  • After minification 242.9 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. Federal Daily images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 307.8 kB

  • Original 493.7 kB
  • After minification 482.3 kB
  • After compression 186.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 307.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Federaldaily.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (64%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Federal Daily. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

federalsoup.com

federalsoup.com

458 ms

Home.aspx

Home.aspx

350 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

31 ms

base.css

base.css

233 ms

core.js

core.js

392 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

45 ms

login.js

login.js

269 ms

jquery-scrolltofixed-min.js

jquery-scrolltofixed-min.js

327 ms

base.js

base.js

264 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

328 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

290 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

493 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

25 ms

container.html

container.html

36 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

35 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

css

css

59 ms

css

css

70 ms

tag.aspx

tag.aspx

25 ms

fedsouplogo.png

fedsouplogo.png

72 ms

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4EAC084FE5234BECA5876A5207D7CCF3.ashx

84 ms

fedsouplogo-small.png

fedsouplogo-small.png

87 ms

1105psmglogo-small.png

1105psmglogo-small.png

147 ms

1105logo_website.ashx

1105logo_website.ashx

150 ms

utsync.ashx

utsync.ashx

63 ms

ud.ashx

ud.ashx

26 ms

tpsync.ashx

tpsync.ashx

62 ms

ads

ads

76 ms

20486

20486

159 ms

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30 ms

ads

ads

44 ms

osd.js

osd.js

100 ms

csync.ashx

csync.ashx

80 ms

395886.gif

395886.gif

24 ms

fedsoup-quotes.png

fedsoup-quotes.png

116 ms

fedsoup-more-arrow.png

fedsoup-more-arrow.png

108 ms

ads

ads

42 ms

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10943217651396295143

19 ms

ads

ads

42 ms

aclk

aclk

71 ms

ads

ads

34 ms

enewsletter-miniforms.js

enewsletter-miniforms.js

633 ms

express_html_inpage_rendering_lib_200_119.js

express_html_inpage_rendering_lib_200_119.js

23 ms

3-14-0730_FED_WEB_FederalDisplay_300x250_bluewht.jpg

3-14-0730_FED_WEB_FederalDisplay_300x250_bluewht.jpg

3 ms

activity;src=2992003;pid=108215433;aid=281539647;ko=0;cid=65705769;rid=65585869;rv=3;met=1;×tamp=1458463335422;eid1=9;ecn1=1;etm1=0;

activity;src=2992003;pid=108215433;aid=281539647;ko=0;cid=65705769;rid=65585869;rv=3;met=1;×tamp=1458463335422;eid1=9;ecn1=1;etm1=0;

17 ms

lidar.js

lidar.js

4 ms

ads

ads

35 ms

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10270654187354751345

20 ms

ads

ads

33 ms

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13 ms

ads

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36 ms

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12 ms

Accessibility Review

federaldaily.com accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

federaldaily.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

federaldaily.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Federaldaily.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 Federaldaily.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

federaldaily.com

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