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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

politics.georgetown.edu

Public service is a good thing. Politics can be, too. - Institute of Politics and Public Service

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

Visit politics.georgetown.edu now to see the best up-to-date Politics Georgetown content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about politics.georgetown.edu

This is the homepage of Georgetown's Institute of Politics and Public Service, established in 2015. "Public service is a good thing, politics can be, too."

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Key Findings

We analyzed Politics.georgetown.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

politics.georgetown.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Politics.georgetown.edu, 22% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Politics.georgetown.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 305.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Politics.georgetown.edu main page is 8.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 179.8 kB

  • Original 227.0 kB
  • After minification 194.7 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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 32.3 kB, which is 14% 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 179.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 7.6 MB
  • After minification 7.6 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. Politics Georgetown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 245.6 kB
  • After minification 245.6 kB
  • After compression 162.0 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 83.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 93.5 kB
  • After minification 93.1 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Politics.georgetown.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.7 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (49%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Politics Georgetown. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

politics.georgetown.edu accessibility score

90

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

politics.georgetown.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

politics.georgetown.edu SEO score

98

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 Politics.georgetown.edu 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 Politics.georgetown.edu 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 Politics Georgetown. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: