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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

psc.gov

Program Support Center (PSC) | HHS.gov

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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About Website

Visit psc.gov now to see the best up-to-date PSC content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about psc.gov

Program Support Center (PSC) is a shared services organization providing support services to help its customers achieve mission-critical results.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Psc.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 48 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 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

psc.gov performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.974

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

psc.gov

48 ms

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70 ms

index.html

1519 ms

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30 ms

css_u8iLDafwaLCwx-9qX1vh55WmyQb_X0gpnSh3h4YlPts.css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Psc.gov, 55% (30 requests) were made to Hhs.gov and 9% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Hhs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 605.9 kB (65%)

Content Size

932.3 kB

After Optimization

326.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Psc.gov main page is 932.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 612.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 23.4 kB, which is 25% 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 80.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 224.8 kB
  • After minification 224.8 kB
  • After compression 217.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 518.4 kB

  • Original 612.0 kB
  • After minification 610.1 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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. Psc.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 518.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (71%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PSC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

psc.gov

psc.gov

48 ms

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psc.gov

70 ms

index.html

index.html

1519 ms

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30 ms

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108 ms

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156 ms

modernizr.min.js

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185 ms

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292 ms

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351 ms

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351 ms

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352 ms

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353 ms

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351 ms

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452 ms

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488 ms

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109 ms

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89 ms

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227 ms

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expand_more.svg

227 ms

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228 ms

icon-https.svg

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278 ms

logo.svg

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249 ms

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276 ms

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276 ms

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search--blue.svg

247 ms

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296 ms

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291 ms

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301 ms

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301 ms

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297 ms

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269 ms

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284 ms

iframe_api

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304 ms

image.aspx

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219 ms

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145 ms

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45 ms

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47 ms

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45 ms

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6 ms

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21 ms

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154 ms

37 ms

Accessibility Review

psc.gov accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

psc.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

psc.gov SEO score

98

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