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Congress.gov | Library of Congress

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

345 ms

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U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

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Key Findings

We analyzed Congress.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 1.3 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

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Congress.gov, 15% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.loc.gov and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (346 ms) belongs to the original domain Congress.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 645.4 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

480.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Congress.gov main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 614.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 86.0 kB

  • Original 110.8 kB
  • After minification 100.4 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 86.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 263.2 kB
  • After minification 244.2 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. Congress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 426.7 kB

  • Original 614.4 kB
  • After minification 614.4 kB
  • After compression 187.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 426.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 113.7 kB

  • Original 136.9 kB
  • After minification 136.7 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Congress.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (24%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Congress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

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