Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ncirc.gov

Home | National Criminal Intelligence Resource Center

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

883 ms

Page Rendered

374 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncirc.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 1.3 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

ncirc.gov performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncirc.gov

168 ms

ncirc.bja.ojp.gov

138 ms

css_9rP7A5ZRSLd7DA6uGlLIFa7ln9B-aUw-Zv6q3zDUTlo.css

16 ms

css_WHT2VCyYGzZ6ThLxsUJA7_aTL2d6fw9RQfh1Npmvei0.css

30 ms

css_4She18jKX8pCJo6rE9_ErGWQa6uo4LgBfVkd72qsE0U.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ncirc.gov, 86% (51 requests) were made to Ncirc.bja.ojp.gov and 8% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (299 ms) relates to the external source Ncirc.bja.ojp.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Ncirc.gov main page is 1.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 6.1 kB, which is 11% 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 41.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Ncirc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 80.4 kB

  • Original 374.1 kB
  • After minification 374.1 kB
  • After compression 293.7 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 80.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. Ncirc.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (60%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncirc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ncirc.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ncirc.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ncirc.gov SEO score

93

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

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