Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

losangeles.va.gov

VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care | Veterans Affairs

Page Load Speed

13.5 sec in total

First Response

538 ms

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Losangeles.va.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 538 ms and then it took 13 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

losangeles.va.gov performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,270 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.453

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

losangeles.va.gov

538 ms

greater-los-angeles-health-care

294 ms

186 ms

polyfills.entry.js

558 ms

web-components.css

432 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Losangeles.va.gov, 34% (18 requests) were made to Prod-va-gov-assets.s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com and 23% (12 requests) were made to Va.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source Va.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

359.4 kB

After Optimization

264.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Losangeles.va.gov main page is 359.4 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 125.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 88.6 kB

  • Original 107.9 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 16.3 kB, which is 15% 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 88.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 125.7 kB
  • After minification 122.4 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. Los Angeles VA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 65 B

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 96.5 kB
  • After compression 93.2 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. Losangeles.va.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (69%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Los Angeles VA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

losangeles.va.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

losangeles.va.gov best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

losangeles.va.gov SEO score

99

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 Losangeles.va.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 Losangeles.va.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

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