Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

rockthevote.com

Rock the Vote - Register to Vote, Find Election Info, and More!

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

rockthevote.com screenshot

About Website

Visit rockthevote.com now to see the best up-to-date Rock The Vote content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rockthevote.com

Dedicated to building the political power of young people. Register to vote, check your registration status, and more. Fast, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rockthevote.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rockthevote.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,590 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.172

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rockthevote.org

29 ms

www.rockthevote.org

29 ms

js

69 ms

icons.min.css

344 ms

ddd-admin.css

391 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Rockthevote.com, 40% (32 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) relates to the external source Rockthevote.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

697.4 kB

After Optimization

554.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Rockthevote.com main page is 697.4 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. 75% 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 267.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 109.4 kB

  • Original 131.9 kB
  • After minification 129.1 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 109.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 237.7 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, Rock The Vote needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 170.5 kB
  • After minification 170.5 kB
  • After compression 167.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 264 B

  • Original 127.5 kB
  • After minification 127.5 kB
  • After compression 127.2 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. Rockthevote.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (85%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rock The Vote. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rockthevote.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

rockthevote.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rockthevote.com SEO score

78

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Rockthevote.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 Rockthevote.com 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 Rock The Vote. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: