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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

federalreserve.gov

Federal Reserve Board - Home

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

793 ms

Page Rendered

243 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Federalreserve.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 1 sec 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

federalreserve.gov performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

federalreserve.gov

123 ms

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51 ms

www.federalreserve.gov

98 ms

bootstrap.css

35 ms

bluesteel-theme.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Federalreserve.gov, 9% (3 requests) were made to Metrics.brightcove.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Players.brightcove.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (212 ms) belongs to the original domain Federalreserve.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Federalreserve.gov main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 825.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 133.7 kB

  • Original 165.6 kB
  • After minification 136.6 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 29.0 kB, which is 18% 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 133.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 763.3 kB
  • After minification 692.3 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 Reserve images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 533.8 kB

  • Original 825.6 kB
  • After minification 825.5 kB
  • After compression 291.7 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 533.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 330.8 kB

  • Original 532.8 kB
  • After minification 482.7 kB
  • After compression 202.0 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. Federalreserve.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 330.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (40%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Federal Reserve. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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123 ms

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51 ms

www.federalreserve.gov

www.federalreserve.gov

98 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

35 ms

bluesteel-theme.css

bluesteel-theme.css

58 ms

modernizr-latest.js

modernizr-latest.js

46 ms

grunticon.loader.js

grunticon.loader.js

47 ms

angular.min.js

angular.min.js

47 ms

app.js

app.js

44 ms

index.min.js

index.min.js

28 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

112 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

122 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

126 ms

modal.js

modal.js

121 ms

sticky-tables.js

sticky-tables.js

126 ms

ekko-lightbox.min.js

ekko-lightbox.min.js

127 ms

t4-nav-controller.js

t4-nav-controller.js

128 ms

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eccles-main-2000px.png

210 ms

btfp-hp-gfx-sm.png

btfp-hp-gfx-sm.png

208 ms

Econ-dis-home-gfx-sm2.png

Econ-dis-home-gfx-sm2.png

208 ms

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hm-pg-Fed-Now-FAQ-sm-2023_v2.png

207 ms

monetary-poly-home-gfx-sm.jpg

monetary-poly-home-gfx-sm.jpg

211 ms

home-pg-svb-report-grx-sm.png

home-pg-svb-report-grx-sm.png

210 ms

fomc-callout.jpg

fomc-callout.jpg

212 ms

uscurrency-callout.jpg

uscurrency-callout.jpg

211 ms

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USAGov%402x.png

210 ms

OpenGov%402x.png

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211 ms

tracker

tracker

97 ms

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84 ms

tracker

tracker

71 ms

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16 ms

tracker

tracker

35 ms

main.js

main.js

18 ms

icons.data.svg.css

icons.data.svg.css

153 ms

Accessibility Review

federalreserve.gov accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

federalreserve.gov best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

federalreserve.gov SEO score

99

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 Federalreserve.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 Federalreserve.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Federal Reserve. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: