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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

citizen.org

Public Citizen - Protecting Health, Safety, and Democracy

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

97 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Citizen content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about citizen.org

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest – your interests – in the halls of power.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citizen.org page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citizen.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,070 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citizen.org

79 ms

www.citizen.org

147 ms

www.citizen.org

106 ms

lab1zze.css

118 ms

js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Citizen.org, 13% (4 requests) were made to Act.citizen.org and 9% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (378 ms) relates to the external source Act.citizen.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

289.1 kB

After Optimization

227.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citizen.org main page is 289.1 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 163.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 69.7 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 8.4 kB, which is 12% 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 55.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 163.2 kB
  • After minification 163.2 kB
  • After compression 161.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. Citizen.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (83%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

4

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizen. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

citizen.org accessibility score

95

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

citizen.org best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

citizen.org SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citizen.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 Citizen.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 data is detected on the main page of Citizen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: