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Visit solarstates.org now to see the best up-to-date Solar States content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about solarstates.org

IREC's annual Solar Jobs Census is the authoritative account on solar jobs and the state of the solar workforce.

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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value53.5 s

0/100

10%

solarstates.org

161 ms

105 ms

gtm.js

140 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

style-index.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Solarstates.org, 76% (62 requests) were made to Irecusa.org and 11% (9 requests) were made to Datawrapper.dwcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) relates to the external source Irecusa.org.

Content Size

16.1 MB

After Optimization

12.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Solarstates.org main page is 16.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 15.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 129.6 kB

Original 165.4 kB
After minification 158.2 kB
After compression 35.8 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 129.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 3.3 MB

Original 15.1 MB
After minification 11.8 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. Obviously, Solar States needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.3 MB or 22% 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 17.3 kB

Original 748.5 kB
After minification 748.5 kB
After compression 731.2 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

Original 94.2 kB
After minification 94.2 kB
After compression 69.5 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. Solarstates.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.8 kB or 26% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar States. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Solarstates.org 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 Solarstates.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Solar States. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook:

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Solar Jobs Census - Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC)

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About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)