Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

censusreporter.org

Census Reporter: Making Census Data Easy to Use

Page Load Speed

811 ms in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

517 ms

Page Rendered

272 ms

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About Website

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

Census Reporter provides useful facts about every place in America. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Censusreporter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 789 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

censusreporter.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

censusreporter.org

22 ms

normalize.min.css

5 ms

app.css

11 ms

modernizr@2.7,respond@1.4

9 ms

jquery@2.1,d3js@3.4,typeahead.js@0.10.2(typeahead.bundle.min.js),underscorejs@1.6,spinjs@1.3,handlebarsjs@1.3(handlebars.min.js)

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Censusreporter.org, 9% (3 requests) were made to Widget.uservoice.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (153 ms) relates to the external source By2.uservoice.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.6 kB (56%)

Content Size

277.6 kB

After Optimization

123.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Censusreporter.org main page is 277.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 91.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 33.7 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 4.3 kB, which is 13% 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 25.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 366 B

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.3 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. Census Reporter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 55.1 kB

  • Original 91.2 kB
  • After minification 82.8 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 55.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 90.1 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. Censusreporter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (54%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Census Reporter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

censusreporter.org accessibility score

75

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

censusreporter.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

censusreporter.org SEO score

92

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

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

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 Censusreporter.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 Censusreporter.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Census Reporter. 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: