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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

uschs.org

United States Capitol Historical Society

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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About Website

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

The U.S. Capitol Historical Society is a nonprofit / nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to promoting the history of the U.S. Capitol and Congress.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uschs.org page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uschs.org performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.336

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uschs.org

253 ms

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Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Uschs.org, 6% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (805 ms) belongs to the original domain Uschs.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (49%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Uschs.org main page is 5.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.1 kB

  • Original 89.0 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 72.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Uschs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 939.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 346.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 939.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 158.0 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. Uschs.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 99 (80%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uschs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

uschs.org accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

uschs.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

uschs.org SEO score

86

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

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

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

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 Uschs.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 Uschs.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

uschs.org

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