Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

nationalmockelection.org

Civics | National Student Parent Mock Election

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

586 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nationalmockelection.org homepage info - get ready to check National Mock Election best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about nationalmockelection.org

The site is the home page of the National Student Parent Mock Election, the oldest and largest civic education program in the United States of America with over 76 million participants since 1980.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalmockelection.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalmockelection.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,930 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.178

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalmockelection.org

1258 ms

style.css

106 ms

2-layout.css

150 ms

style.responsive.css

157 ms

jquery.js

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalmockelection.org, 9% (2 requests) were made to 0 and 5% (1 request) were made to Adobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Nationalmockelection.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 315.0 kB (33%)

Content Size

952.7 kB

After Optimization

637.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationalmockelection.org main page is 952.7 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. Images take 612.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 17.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 612.9 kB
  • After minification 562.4 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. National Mock Election images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 157.2 kB

  • Original 213.5 kB
  • After minification 175.0 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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 157.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 90.4 kB

  • Original 103.3 kB
  • After minification 82.8 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Nationalmockelection.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 90.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (24%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Mock Election. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationalmockelection.org accessibility score

81

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 match their roles

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nationalmockelection.org 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

nationalmockelection.org SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Nationalmockelection.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 Nationalmockelection.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of National Mock Election. 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: