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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

millercenter.org

Home | Miller Center

Page Load Speed

637 ms in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

453 ms

Page Rendered

124 ms

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About Website

Welcome to millercenter.org homepage info - get ready to check Miller Center best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about millercenter.org

The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of histor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Millercenter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 577 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

millercenter.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,880 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

millercenter.org

60 ms

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58 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Millercenter.org, 30% (13 requests) were made to Staticmc.org and 9% (4 requests) were made to D1f0ngef7bih17.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (220 ms) belongs to the original domain Millercenter.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

666.2 kB

After Optimization

488.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Millercenter.org main page is 666.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 418.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 58.2 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 11.6 kB, which is 20% 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 38.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 418.9 kB
  • After minification 416.4 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. Miller Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 71.4 kB

  • Original 110.9 kB
  • After minification 109.4 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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 71.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 62.5 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. Millercenter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (35%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Miller Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

millercenter.org

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Accessibility Review

millercenter.org accessibility score

80

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

millercenter.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

millercenter.org SEO score

84

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

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 Millercenter.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 Millercenter.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

millercenter.org

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