Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

veteranprograms.com

U.S. Veteran Compensation Programs

Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

367 ms

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

597 ms

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About Website

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U.S. Veteran Compensation programs is a veteran services agency, dedicated to providing professional development U.S. veterans and active duty servicemembers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Veteranprograms.com page load time and found that the first response time was 367 ms and then it took 12.2 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

veteranprograms.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

veteranprograms.com

367 ms

design_0058_3.jpg

145 ms

timestamp.js

66 ms

show_ads.js

5 ms

design_0058_4.jpg

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Veteranprograms.com, 24% (16 requests) were made to Webhosting.web.com and 16% (11 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Veteranprograms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

444.1 kB

After Optimization

243.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Veteranprograms.com main page is 444.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 267.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 128.7 kB

  • Original 142.4 kB
  • After minification 109.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 33.0 kB, which is 23% 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 128.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 59.2 kB

  • Original 267.6 kB
  • After minification 208.4 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. Obviously, Veteran Programs needs image optimization as it can save up to 59.2 kB 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

-37%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 12.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (41%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Veteran Programs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

veteranprograms.com accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

veteranprograms.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

veteranprograms.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Veteranprograms.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Veteranprograms.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Veteran Programs. 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: