Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

fedscoop.com

FedScoop | Federal Government Tech News, Breaking Govt IT News

Page Load Speed

18.6 sec in total

First Response

5.8 sec

Resources Loaded

11.9 sec

Page Rendered

819 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fedscoop.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.8 sec and then it took 12.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fedscoop.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value49,140 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fedscoop.com

5810 ms

homepage.css

163 ms

tfa.js

33 ms

enc1lvq.js

234 ms

modernizr.prod.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Fedscoop.com, 46% (49 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) belongs to the original domain Fedscoop.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 489.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Fedscoop.com main page is 3.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 78.9 kB
  • After minification 59.6 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 19.3 kB, which is 24% 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 67.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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. Fed Scoop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 156.9 kB

  • Original 242.3 kB
  • After minification 240.6 kB
  • After compression 85.4 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 156.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 164.5 kB

  • Original 187.3 kB
  • After minification 185.6 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. Fedscoop.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 164.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (39%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fed Scoop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fedscoop.com accessibility score

86

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

fedscoop.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

fedscoop.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Fedscoop.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 Fedscoop.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 Fed Scoop. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: