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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

obamacarewatch.org

ObamaCare Watch | A Project of the Galen Institute

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

680 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

524 ms

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About Website

Visit obamacarewatch.org now to see the best up-to-date Obama Care Watch content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about obamacarewatch.org

Galen Institute offers ObamaCareWatch.org — a robust destination for credible, substantive news and commentary about the ACA and health policy issues.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Obamacarewatch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 680 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

obamacarewatch.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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680 ms

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Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Obamacarewatch.org, 11% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) belongs to the original domain Obamacarewatch.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Obamacarewatch.org main page is 2.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 88.0 kB
  • After minification 82.8 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 65.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 729.7 kB
  • After minification 672.8 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. Obama Care Watch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 713.8 kB

  • Original 946.9 kB
  • After minification 780.7 kB
  • After compression 233.1 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 713.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 927.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 766.7 kB
  • After compression 164.6 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. Obamacarewatch.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 927.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (67%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Obama Care Watch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

obamacarewatch.org accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

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.

SEO Factors

obamacarewatch.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

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 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 Obamacarewatch.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 Obamacarewatch.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

obamacarewatch.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Obama Care Watch. 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: