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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

whistleblowers.org

National Whistleblower Center (NWC) - Protecting Whistleblowers

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

906 ms

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About Website

Visit whistleblowers.org now to see the best up-to-date Whistleblowers content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about whistleblowers.org

NWC is the leading nonprofit working with whistleblowers around the world to fight corruption and protect people and the environment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whistleblowers.org page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whistleblowers.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.216

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.whistleblowers.org

271 ms

css

54 ms

polyfill.js

374 ms

style.min.css

10 ms

styles.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Whistleblowers.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) belongs to the original domain Whistleblowers.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.3 kB (3%)

Content Size

12.2 MB

After Optimization

11.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whistleblowers.org main page is 12.2 MB. 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 a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 59.5 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 13.8 kB, which is 19% 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 60.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 347.4 kB

  • Original 11.8 MB
  • After minification 11.5 MB

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. Whistleblowers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 212.2 kB
  • After minification 212.2 kB
  • After compression 211.1 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 870 B

  • Original 51.2 kB
  • After minification 51.1 kB
  • After compression 50.4 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. Whistleblowers.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (46%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whistleblowers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.whistleblowers.org

www.whistleblowers.org

271 ms

css

css

54 ms

polyfill.js

polyfill.js

374 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

10 ms

styles.css

styles.css

14 ms

style.css

style.css

27 ms

style.css

style.css

24 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

28 ms

index.js

index.js

26 ms

index.js

index.js

28 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

57 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

31 ms

element.js

element.js

61 ms

jquery.prettySocial.min.js

jquery.prettySocial.min.js

28 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

31 ms

global.min.js

global.min.js

38 ms

api.js

api.js

63 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

34 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

34 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

37 ms

index.js

index.js

36 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

368 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

126 ms

DOJ-90-Day-Policy-Spring-scaled.jpg

DOJ-90-Day-Policy-Spring-scaled.jpg

79 ms

Get-NWC-to-the-International-Anticorruption-Conference-6-scaled.jpg

Get-NWC-to-the-International-Anticorruption-Conference-6-scaled.jpg

81 ms

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1-scaled.jpg

77 ms

2023-EOY-Report-Landing-Page-Banner-scaled.jpg

2023-EOY-Report-Landing-Page-Banner-scaled.jpg

79 ms

Take-Action-1.jpg

Take-Action-1.jpg

297 ms

National-Whistleblower-Center-3-scaled.jpg

National-Whistleblower-Center-3-scaled.jpg

76 ms

NWC-Whistleblower-Chats-scaled.jpg

NWC-Whistleblower-Chats-scaled.jpg

192 ms

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Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-11.03.56-AM.jpg

81 ms

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Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-11.12.49-AM.jpg

295 ms

Department_of_Justice_Building_AG.jpg

Department_of_Justice_Building_AG.jpg

80 ms

Congress-Andy-Feliciotti.png

Congress-Andy-Feliciotti.png

427 ms

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440 ms

doj.jpg

doj.jpg

444 ms

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iStock-1725731598.jpg

427 ms

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Urge-Congress-to-Investigate-Boeing-Airlines-and-Hold-Them-Accountable-2-scaled.jpg

298 ms

money.jpeg

money.jpeg

428 ms

Whistleblower-Advocates-Take-Issue-with-IRS-Whistleblower-Programs-Massive-Delays-1140x570-1.jpeg

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425 ms

NWD.jpg

NWD.jpg

434 ms

Screen-Shot-2021-03-03-at-2.56.39-PM.jpg

Screen-Shot-2021-03-03-at-2.56.39-PM.jpg

432 ms

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Rules-for-Whistleblowers-RGB-200x300.jpg

428 ms

youtube.svg

youtube.svg

429 ms

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youtube-white.svg

430 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

432 ms

facebook-white.svg

facebook-white.svg

435 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

435 ms

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twitter-white.svg

436 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

437 ms

linkedin-white.svg

linkedin-white.svg

441 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

440 ms

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instagram-white.svg

444 ms

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faq.svg

445 ms

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392 ms

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393 ms

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391 ms

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239 ms

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240 ms

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391 ms

proximanova-regularit-webfont.woff

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391 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

344 ms

Accessibility Review

whistleblowers.org accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

whistleblowers.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

whistleblowers.org SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Whistleblowers.org 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 Whistleblowers.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

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