Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 72

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

nationalresourcedirectory.gov

National Resource Directory | Connecting Service Members & Veterans

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

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National Resource Directory Connects Wounded, Ill & Injured Service Members, Veterans, Their Families, and Caregivers with Those Who Support Them

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalresourcedirectory.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalresourcedirectory.gov performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.214

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalresourcedirectory.gov

445 ms

css

60 ms

bootstrap.min.css

75 ms

bootstrap_sandstone.min-8f4ff246.css

125 ms

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4 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalresourcedirectory.gov, 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (728 ms) belongs to the original domain Nationalresourcedirectory.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (66%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

669.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationalresourcedirectory.gov main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 37.9 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. 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 21.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 515.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 504.9 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 515.1 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 789.8 kB

  • Original 936.8 kB
  • After minification 854.9 kB
  • After compression 147.1 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. Nationalresourcedirectory.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 789.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (93%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Resource Directory. 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationalresourcedirectory.gov accessibility score

82

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

nationalresourcedirectory.gov 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nationalresourcedirectory.gov SEO score

72

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Nationalresourcedirectory.gov 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 Nationalresourcedirectory.gov 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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: