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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hhs.gov

Department of Health & Human Services | HHS.gov

Page Load Speed

844 ms in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

491 ms

Page Rendered

335 ms

About Website

Welcome to hhs.gov homepage info - get ready to check HHS best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about hhs.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services protects the health and well-being of all people living in the United States and provides essential human services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hhs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 826 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

hhs.gov performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,770 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.974

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hhs.gov

18 ms

index.html

26 ms

css_awgHjbar0tYyLzQctO7CiHeYnRwy57kaG3VCZcjLmaA.css

18 ms

css_u8iLDafwaLCwx-9qX1vh55WmyQb_X0gpnSh3h4YlPts.css

23 ms

chosen.min.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Hhs.gov, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S.go-mpulse.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (184 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 576.2 kB (76%)

Content Size

758.7 kB

After Optimization

182.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hhs.gov main page is 758.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 612.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 50.9 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 13.8 kB, which is 21% 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 51.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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

-85%

Potential reduce by 518.4 kB

  • Original 612.0 kB
  • After minification 610.1 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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. Hhs.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 518.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (68%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HHS. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hhs.gov accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

hhs.gov best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hhs.gov SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hhs.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 Hhs.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 HHS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: