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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

federalretirement.net

Federal Employee's Retirement Planning Guide| FERS and CSRS Retirement Benefits

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Federalretirement.net page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

federalretirement.net performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,510 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.537

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

federalretirement.net

199 ms

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267 ms

www.federalretirement.net

284 ms

adsbygoogle.js

111 ms

bootstrap.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Federalretirement.net, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (292 ms) belongs to the original domain Federalretirement.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

664.5 kB

After Optimization

497.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Federalretirement.net main page is 664.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 342.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.3 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 33.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 494 B

  • Original 234.6 kB
  • After minification 234.1 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. Federal Retirement images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 127.9 kB

  • Original 342.8 kB
  • After minification 342.7 kB
  • After compression 214.9 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 127.9 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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. Federalretirement.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (39%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Federal Retirement. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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federalretirement.net

199 ms

federalretirement.net

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267 ms

www.federalretirement.net

www.federalretirement.net

284 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

111 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

70 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

135 ms

lm-bootstrap.css

lm-bootstrap.css

190 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

192 ms

styles.css

styles.css

194 ms

snippets.css

snippets.css

192 ms

parallax-slider.css

parallax-slider.css

193 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

39 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

199 ms

special_functions.js

special_functions.js

252 ms

brand

brand

32 ms

modernizr.custom.28468.js

modernizr.custom.28468.js

291 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

42 ms

jquery.cslider.js

jquery.cslider.js

292 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

171 ms

js

js

64 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

17 ms

css

css

28 ms

body-bg.jpg

body-bg.jpg

68 ms

eagle-border.jpg

eagle-border.jpg

69 ms

fc-webicon-facebook-m.png

fc-webicon-facebook-m.png

68 ms

fc-webicon-twitter-m.png

fc-webicon-twitter-m.png

69 ms

image1.jpg

image1.jpg

156 ms

image2.jpg

image2.jpg

156 ms

image3.jpg

image3.jpg

188 ms

image4.jpg

image4.jpg

157 ms

image5.jpg

image5.jpg

190 ms

newflat.gif

newflat.gif

157 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

190 ms

update.gif

update.gif

190 ms

fc-webicon-facebook.png

fc-webicon-facebook.png

191 ms

fc-webicon-twitter.png

fc-webicon-twitter.png

190 ms

header-bg.jpg

header-bg.jpg

279 ms

branding.png

branding.png

8 ms

default-bg.jpg

default-bg.jpg

188 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

248 ms

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HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml2xMCbKsUPpjl.woff

36 ms

HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml1RMCbKsUPpjlG8Q.woff

HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml1RMCbKsUPpjlG8Q.woff

89 ms

HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml1BMCbKsUPpjlG8Q.woff

HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml1BMCbKsUPpjlG8Q.woff

90 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

182 ms

BebasNeue-webfont.woff

BebasNeue-webfont.woff

160 ms

footer-bg.jpg

footer-bg.jpg

186 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

244 ms

hr.png

hr.png

186 ms

menu-top-bg.png

menu-top-bg.png

166 ms

dropdown-menu-bg.jpg

dropdown-menu-bg.jpg

222 ms

Accessibility Review

federalretirement.net accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

federalretirement.net best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

federalretirement.net SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Federalretirement.net 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 Federalretirement.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Federal Retirement. 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: