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census.gov

Census.gov

Page Load Speed

56.3 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

42.7 sec

Page Rendered

12 sec

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About Website

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The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Census.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 54.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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1587 ms

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1733 ms

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1234 ms

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2311 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Census.gov, 2% (3 requests) were made to Api.mixpanel.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Census.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.8 MB (53%)

Content Size

10.8 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Census.gov main page is 10.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 262.6 kB

  • Original 295.4 kB
  • After minification 219.9 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 75.4 kB, which is 26% 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 262.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 465.5 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB

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, Census needs image optimization as it can save up to 465.5 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 3.7 MB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 3.7 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 290.3 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. Census.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (52%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Census. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

census.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 Census.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 Census.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

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