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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

represent.us

RepresentUs: Fight Corruption, Fix America

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to represent.us homepage info - get ready to check Represent best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about represent.us

RepresentUs is America’s leading anti-corruption organization working city by city, state by state to fix our broken political system.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Represent.us page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

represent.us performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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13 ms

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265 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

43 ms

screen.css

46 ms

csshake.min.css

304 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Represent.us, 4% (3 requests) were made to Themes.googleusercontent.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Pls.webtype.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (29%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Represent.us main page is 3.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 46.2 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 12.6 kB, which is 27% 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 36.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Represent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 449.4 kB

  • Original 674.3 kB
  • After minification 647.9 kB
  • After compression 224.9 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 449.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 509.4 kB

  • Original 597.0 kB
  • After minification 596.4 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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. Represent.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 509.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (48%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Represent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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13 ms

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265 ms

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43 ms

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46 ms

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196 ms

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67 ms

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726 ms

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66 ms

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167 ms

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62 ms

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171 ms

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62 ms

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82 ms

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4 ms

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175 ms

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300 ms

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Accessibility Review

represent.us accessibility score

72

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

Best Practices

represent.us 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

represent.us SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Represent.us can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Represent.us 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 Represent. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: