Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

idcf.bls.gov

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Internet Data Collection Facility (IDCF)

Page Load Speed

725 ms in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

488 ms

Page Rendered

96 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Idcf.bls.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 584 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

idcf.bls.gov performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

idcf.bls.gov

141 ms

idcf.bls.gov

100 ms

login

72 ms

jquery.tooltip.css

7 ms

jquery.alerts.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Idcf.bls.gov, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (141 ms) belongs to the original domain Idcf.bls.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 562.2 kB (75%)

Content Size

754.0 kB

After Optimization

191.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Idcf.bls.gov main page is 754.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 532.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 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, IDCF Bls needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.0 kB or 73% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 385.3 kB

  • Original 532.6 kB
  • After minification 471.0 kB
  • After compression 147.3 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 385.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

  • Original 155.3 kB
  • After minification 138.9 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. Idcf.bls.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (69%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IDCF Bls. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

idcf.bls.gov accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

idcf.bls.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

SEO Factors

idcf.bls.gov SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Idcf.bls.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 Idcf.bls.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of IDCF Bls. 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: