Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

policecertification.com

PoliceApp | Simplifying the Law Enforcement Job Hiring Process

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

677 ms

Page Rendered

718 ms

policecertification.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Police Certification content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about policecertification.com

PoliceApp simplifies the police hiring process by streamlining the recruitment & application process for police & law enforcement job openings across the U.S.

Visit policecertification.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Policecertification.com page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

policecertification.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

policecertification.com

138 ms

www.policeapp.com

59 ms

www.policeapp.com

98 ms

style.css

32 ms

style.css

42 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 Policecertification.com, 73% (43 requests) were made to Policeapp.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) relates to the external source Policeapp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 569.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Policecertification.com main page is 6.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 15.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 545.4 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Police Certification images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 52.6 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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 7.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 962 B

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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. Policecertification.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (31%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Police Certification. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

policecertification.com accessibility score

77

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 match their roles

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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

policecertification.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

policecertification.com SEO score

75

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Policecertification.com 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 Policecertification.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Police Certification. 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: