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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

my.uscis.gov

USCIS | myUSCIS Home Page

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

591 ms

Page Rendered

282 ms

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About Website

Visit my.uscis.gov now to see the best up-to-date My USCIS content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about my.uscis.gov

myUSCIS provides a personalized account to help you navigate the immigration process. On myUSCIS, you will find: Up-to-date information about the application process for immigration benefits; Tools to...

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Key Findings

We analyzed My.uscis.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 873 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

my.uscis.gov performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

my.uscis.gov

133 ms

gtm.js

59 ms

Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js

23 ms

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24 ms

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31 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original My.uscis.gov, 11% (4 requests) were made to Dhs.gov and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) relates to the external source S.go-mpulse.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

875.1 kB

After Optimization

518.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of My.uscis.gov main page is 875.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 356.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 85.4 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 62.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 356.5 kB
  • After minification 350.3 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. My USCIS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 98.5 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 98.5 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

-87%

Potential reduce by 287.6 kB

  • Original 330.1 kB
  • After minification 326.5 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. My.uscis.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My USCIS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

my.uscis.gov

my.uscis.gov

133 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

59 ms

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23 ms

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24 ms

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20 ms

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25 ms

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config.json

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47 ms

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Accessibility Review

my.uscis.gov accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

my.uscis.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

my.uscis.gov SEO score

90

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

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 My.uscis.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 My.uscis.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

my.uscis.gov

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