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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

geohazards.usgs.gov

Geologic Hazards Science Center | U.S. Geological Survey

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

755 ms

geohazards.usgs.gov screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geohazards.usgs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 5 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

geohazards.usgs.gov performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geohazards.usgs.gov

188 ms

geohazards

621 ms

geologic-hazards-science-center

2392 ms

gtm.js

115 ms

core.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Geohazards.usgs.gov, 90% (138 requests) were made to Usgs.gov and 4% (6 requests) were made to D9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Usgs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geohazards.usgs.gov main page is 1.6 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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

  • Original 142.6 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 35.3 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 123.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 119.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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, Geo Hazards Usgs needs image optimization as it can save up to 119.9 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 204.6 kB
  • After minification 204.4 kB
  • After compression 195.6 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 132.8 kB
  • After minification 131.6 kB
  • After compression 127.8 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. Geohazards.usgs.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 121 (88%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geo Hazards Usgs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

geohazards.usgs.gov

geohazards.usgs.gov

188 ms

geohazards

geohazards

621 ms

geologic-hazards-science-center

geologic-hazards-science-center

2392 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

115 ms

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19 ms

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794 ms

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47 ms

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Accessibility Review

geohazards.usgs.gov accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

geohazards.usgs.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

geohazards.usgs.gov SEO score

90

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 Geohazards.usgs.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 Geohazards.usgs.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

geohazards.usgs.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Geo Hazards Usgs. 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: