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wethepeople.gov

We the People: An initiative from NEH

Page Load Speed

545 ms in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

304 ms

Page Rendered

157 ms

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About Website

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We the People is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities that supports the strengthening of the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wethepeople.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 461 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wethepeople.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wethepeople.gov

84 ms

style.css

24 ms

title_index.gif

42 ms

about.gif

43 ms

apply.gif

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Wethepeople.gov and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (130 ms) belongs to the original domain Wethepeople.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.0 kB (62%)

Content Size

103.6 kB

After Optimization

39.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Wethepeople.gov main page is 103.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 83.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 2.2 kB, which is 17% 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 9.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 83.4 kB
  • After minification 35.2 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, We The People needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.3 kB or 58% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Wethepeople.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (68%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of We The People. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

wethepeople.gov SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wethepeople.gov 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 Wethepeople.gov main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 We The People. 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: