Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

codeforamerica.org

Code for America

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

885 ms

Page Rendered

472 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Codeforamerica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

codeforamerica.org performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.345

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

codeforamerica.org

18 ms

www.codeforamerica.org

36 ms

944a7551-9b08-4f0a-8767-e0f83db4a16b.css

60 ms

main.css

15 ms

layout.css

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Codeforamerica.org, 35% (27 requests) were made to Avatars.githubusercontent.com and 15% (12 requests) were made to Style.codeforamerica.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (226 ms) belongs to the original domain Codeforamerica.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.0 kB (37%)

Content Size

956.0 kB

After Optimization

600.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Codeforamerica.org main page is 956.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 540.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 5.2 kB, which is 18% 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 21.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 540.9 kB
  • After minification 519.5 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. Code For America images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 87.2 kB
  • After minification 79.0 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 56.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 256.5 kB

  • Original 298.9 kB
  • After minification 240.3 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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. Codeforamerica.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (39%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Code For America. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

codeforamerica.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

codeforamerica.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

codeforamerica.org SEO score

100

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

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 Codeforamerica.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 Codeforamerica.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 Code For America. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: