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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

gfoa.org

Government Finance Officers Association

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

862 ms

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Gfoa content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gfoa.org

The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), founded in 1906, represents public finance officials throughout the United States and Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gfoa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.1 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

gfoa.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.384

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gfoa.org

162 ms

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86 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Gfoa.org, 9% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (337 ms) belongs to the original domain Gfoa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 418.4 kB (51%)

Content Size

815.5 kB

After Optimization

397.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gfoa.org main page is 815.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 295.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 44.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 295.7 kB
  • After minification 285.5 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. Gfoa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 163.7 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 174.5 kB
  • After compression 64.9 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 163.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 200.3 kB

  • Original 237.9 kB
  • After minification 233.1 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. Gfoa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 200.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (63%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gfoa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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162 ms

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84 ms

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85 ms

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94 ms

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208 ms

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23 ms

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Accessibility Review

gfoa.org accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

gfoa.org 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

SEO Factors

gfoa.org SEO score

87

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

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 Gfoa.org 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 Gfoa.org 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

gfoa.org

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