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houselive.gov

House of Representatives Live Video: HouseLive.gov

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

812 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

115 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houselive.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 812 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houselive.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

houselive.gov

812 ms

sitewide_styles.css

30 ms

newtowebsite.css

25 ms

legislative.css

30 ms

houselive.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Houselive.gov, 44% (23 requests) were made to Webcontent.granicusops.com and 31% (16 requests) were made to Clerk.house.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (812 ms) belongs to the original domain Houselive.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 435.7 kB (80%)

Content Size

547.9 kB

After Optimization

112.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Houselive.gov main page is 547.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 278.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 267.2 kB

  • Original 278.2 kB
  • After minification 48.1 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 230.1 kB, which is 83% 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 267.2 kB or 96% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 17.9 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, House Live needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 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

-64%

Potential reduce by 130.3 kB

  • Original 204.4 kB
  • After minification 164.5 kB
  • After compression 74.1 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 130.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. Houselive.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (65%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Live. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

houselive.gov SEO score

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