Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

vets.gov

VA.gov Home | Veterans Affairs

Page Load Speed

774 ms in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

567 ms

Page Rendered

192 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vets.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 759 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vets.gov performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.768

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.vets.gov

15 ms

www.vets.gov

52 ms

style.css

56 ms

css

70 ms

Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Vets.gov, 23% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 18% (4 requests) were made to Search.usa.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (196 ms) belongs to the original domain Vets.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.2 kB (56%)

Content Size

455.1 kB

After Optimization

201.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Vets.gov main page is 455.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 249.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 15.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 860 B

  • Original 46.4 kB
  • After minification 45.6 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. Vets images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 119.7 kB

  • Original 249.5 kB
  • After minification 249.5 kB
  • After compression 129.9 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 119.7 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 138.8 kB
  • After minification 138.2 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. Vets.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (40%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vets. 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.

Accessibility Review

vets.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

vets.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

vets.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 Vets.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 Vets.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 description is not detected on the main page of Vets. 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: