Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

trac.opencongress.org

OpenCongress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to trac.opencongress.org homepage info - get ready to check Trac Open Congress best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about trac.opencongress.org

OpenCongress helps you track bills, senators, representatives as well as gain access to hundreds of legal forms and templates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Trac.opencongress.org page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 3.2 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

trac.opencongress.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

309 ms

open-congress-300x76.png

147 ms

Motor-Vehicle-bill-of-sale-template.webp

151 ms

last-will-and-testament-template.webp

200 ms

durable-financial-power-of-attorney.webp

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Trac.opencongress.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) relates to the external source Formspal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 197.4 kB (76%)

Content Size

260.1 kB

After Optimization

62.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Trac.opencongress.org main page is 260.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 246.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 193.6 kB

  • Original 246.5 kB
  • After minification 246.4 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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. 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 193.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 9.9 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. Obviously, Trac Open Congress needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Trac Open Congress. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

trac.opencongress.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

trac.opencongress.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

SEO Factors

trac.opencongress.org SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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