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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

opm.gov

OPM Home - OPM.gov

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Opm.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 290 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

opm.gov performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.opm.gov

290 ms

styles.css

37 ms

global-medium.css

69 ms

global-small.css

73 ms

all.min.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Opm.gov, 7% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Opm.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 650.3 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

788.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Opm.gov main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 598.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 9.9 kB, which is 16% 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 53.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 544.2 kB
  • After minification 511.5 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. OPM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 137.8 kB

  • Original 232.8 kB
  • After minification 232.7 kB
  • After compression 95.1 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 137.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 426.6 kB

  • Original 598.7 kB
  • After minification 594.7 kB
  • After compression 172.1 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. Opm.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 426.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (62%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of OPM. 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 from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.opm.gov

www.opm.gov

290 ms

styles.css

styles.css

37 ms

global-medium.css

global-medium.css

69 ms

global-small.css

global-small.css

73 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

92 ms

v5-font-face.min.css

v5-font-face.min.css

72 ms

vgn7vpt.css

vgn7vpt.css

74 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

71 ms

home.css

home.css

118 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

34 ms

jstorage.min.js

jstorage.min.js

119 ms

webmethods.setup.js

webmethods.setup.js

117 ms

uswds.min.js

uswds.min.js

113 ms

core.standard.libs.js

core.standard.libs.js

145 ms

core.standard.js

core.standard.js

145 ms

loadfaqs.js

loadfaqs.js

146 ms

webmethods.js

webmethods.js

130 ms

20a76b6d.js

20a76b6d.js

475 ms

css

css

66 ms

p.css

p.css

57 ms

22 ms

23 ms

us_flag_small.png

us_flag_small.png

242 ms

expand_more.svg

expand_more.svg

1131 ms

icon-dot-gov.svg

icon-dot-gov.svg

287 ms

icon-https.svg

icon-https.svg

229 ms

opm_logo.svg

opm_logo.svg

215 ms

close-white.svg

close-white.svg

214 ms

nav_arrow_down.png

nav_arrow_down.png

304 ms

Flag.gif

Flag.gif

258 ms

ico-search.png

ico-search.png

484 ms

spotlight_1_700x700.jpg

spotlight_1_700x700.jpg

544 ms

spotlight_2_700x350.jpg

spotlight_2_700x350.jpg

471 ms

spotlight_3_700x350.jpg

spotlight_3_700x350.jpg

473 ms

audience_3.png

audience_3.png

467 ms

audience_1.png

audience_1.png

520 ms

audience_2.png

audience_2.png

503 ms

opm_logo_white.svg

opm_logo_white.svg

495 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

768 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

696 ms

d

d

30 ms

d

d

19 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

735 ms

fa-thin-100.ttf

fa-thin-100.ttf

747 ms

print.css

print.css

18 ms

print.css

print.css

20 ms

Accessibility Review

opm.gov accessibility score

89

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

opm.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

opm.gov SEO score

85

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Opm.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 Opm.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of OPM. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: