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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

vote-usa.org

Vote-USA | Candidate Comparisons for US Elections, Interactive Ballot Choices, Voter Information, etc.

Page Load Speed

513 ms in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

338 ms

Page Rendered

129 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vote-usa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 467 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vote-usa.org performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vote-usa.org

46 ms

Reset.css

34 ms

jquery-ui.css

66 ms

slicknav.css

7 ms

public.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Vote-usa.org, 8% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (112 ms) belongs to the original domain Vote-usa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 396.5 kB (53%)

Content Size

751.6 kB

After Optimization

355.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vote-usa.org main page is 751.6 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 473.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 65.3 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 45.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 146.3 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. Obviously, Vote USA needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.2 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 291.4 kB

  • Original 473.1 kB
  • After minification 455.0 kB
  • After compression 181.7 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 291.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. Vote-usa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (29%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vote USA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vote-usa.org

vote-usa.org

46 ms

Reset.css

Reset.css

34 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

66 ms

slicknav.css

slicknav.css

7 ms

public.css

public.css

40 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

82 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

103 ms

jquery.slicknav.js

jquery.slicknav.js

33 ms

public.js

public.js

37 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

32 ms

AddressEntryInline.js

AddressEntryInline.js

36 ms

scrolltotop.js

scrolltotop.js

44 ms

donatebanner.jpg

donatebanner.jpg

112 ms

rep-logo.png

rep-logo.png

58 ms

dem-logo.png

dem-logo.png

58 ms

sample-ballot-logo.png

sample-ballot-logo.png

57 ms

lgbanner.png

lgbanner.png

60 ms

nav-home.png

nav-home.png

59 ms

nav-voters.png

nav-voters.png

59 ms

nav-candidates.png

nav-candidates.png

60 ms

nav-volunteers.png

nav-volunteers.png

60 ms

nav-donate.png

nav-donate.png

61 ms

peoplevoting-lite.jpg

peoplevoting-lite.jpg

61 ms

flagbg.jpg

flagbg.jpg

63 ms

pullbg.png

pullbg.png

62 ms

a0a0a0.1.png

a0a0a0.1.png

63 ms

end-partisanship-partner.png

end-partisanship-partner.png

63 ms

no-labels-partner.png

no-labels-partner.png

64 ms

ivn-partner.png

ivn-partner.png

64 ms

ProCon.png

ProCon.png

65 ms

recovering-politician-partner.png

recovering-politician-partner.png

66 ms

infiniden-partner.png

infiniden-partner.png

67 ms

google-partner.png

google-partner.png

68 ms

aristotle-partner.png

aristotle-partner.png

66 ms

business-online-partner.png

business-online-partner.png

68 ms

topcontrol.png

topcontrol.png

67 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

26 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

22 ms

Accessibility Review

vote-usa.org accessibility score

93

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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

vote-usa.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vote-usa.org SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vote-usa.org 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 Vote-usa.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

vote-usa.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Vote USA. 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: