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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

forms.smartvoter.org

Smart Voter by the League of Women Voters. Comprehensive, Nonpartisan Election Information

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

682 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

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About Website

Visit forms.smartvoter.org now to see the best up-to-date Forms Smart Voter content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about forms.smartvoter.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forms.smartvoter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 769 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forms.smartvoter.org performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forms.smartvoter.org

346 ms

voter_style2010-3.css

124 ms

addthis_widget.js

141 ms

sv_logo.jpg

138 ms

sv_wordmark.png

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Forms.smartvoter.org, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (346 ms) belongs to the original domain Forms.smartvoter.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

74.3 kB

After Optimization

55.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forms.smartvoter.org main page is 74.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 4.2 kB, which is 26% 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 11.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 32.7 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. Forms Smart Voter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Forms.smartvoter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forms Smart Voter. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

forms.smartvoter.org

forms.smartvoter.org

346 ms

voter_style2010-3.css

voter_style2010-3.css

124 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

141 ms

sv_logo.jpg

sv_logo.jpg

138 ms

sv_wordmark.png

sv_wordmark.png

138 ms

lwv_logo.jpg

lwv_logo.jpg

138 ms

body.png

body.png

65 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

126 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

127 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

128 ms

wordpress.png

wordpress.png

127 ms

currency.png

currency.png

129 ms

addthis.png

addthis.png

198 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

confidential.png

confidential.png

244 ms

fade_blue.png

fade_blue.png

246 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

244 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

forms.smartvoter.org accessibility score

56

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forms.smartvoter.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

forms.smartvoter.org SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Forms.smartvoter.org 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 Forms.smartvoter.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

forms.smartvoter.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forms Smart Voter. 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: