Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

vaapp.iowa.gov

Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs

Page Load Speed

873 ms in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

663 ms

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vaapp.iowa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 758 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

vaapp.iowa.gov performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vaapp.iowa.gov

115 ms

vaapp.iowa.gov

186 ms

sliver.js

193 ms

main.css

44 ms

header11.jpg

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Vaapp.iowa.gov, 17% (1 request) were made to Iowa.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (193 ms) relates to the external source Iowa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

80.3 kB

After Optimization

65.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Vaapp.iowa.gov main page is 80.3 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 72.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 650 B

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 429 B, which is 24% 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 1.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 72.7 kB
  • After minification 62.9 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, Vaapp Iowa needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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 2.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 608 B

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. Vaapp.iowa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vaapp Iowa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

vaapp.iowa.gov accessibility score

92

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

Best Practices

vaapp.iowa.gov best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

vaapp.iowa.gov SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Vaapp.iowa.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 Vaapp.iowa.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 description is not detected on the main page of Vaapp Iowa. 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: