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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

congressionalreportcards.org

Congressional Report Cards | Voter Information Services – vote wisely, live better

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

88 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Congressional Report Cards content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about congressionalreportcards.org

Easy-to-use, non-partisan reports help you understand what kind of legislation each member of the United States Congress supported or opposed.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Congressionalreportcards.org page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

congressionalreportcards.org performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

congressionalreportcards.org

35 ms

default.aspx

418 ms

modernizr

71 ms

MasterPageStyles

279 ms

MsAjaxJs

945 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Congressionalreportcards.org, 94% (15 requests) were made to Vis.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (945 ms) relates to the external source Vis.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.4 kB (59%)

Content Size

177.2 kB

After Optimization

71.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Congressionalreportcards.org main page is 177.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 137.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. 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 6.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 23.0 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, Congressional Report Cards needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 137.2 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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 91.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (38%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Congressional Report Cards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

congressionalreportcards.org

congressionalreportcards.org

35 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

418 ms

modernizr

modernizr

71 ms

MasterPageStyles

MasterPageStyles

279 ms

MsAjaxJs

MsAjaxJs

945 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

487 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

423 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

288 ms

WebFormsJs

WebFormsJs

431 ms

checkstar.gif

checkstar.gif

71 ms

crcdotorg.gif

crcdotorg.gif

80 ms

smallvis.gif

smallvis.gif

147 ms

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TopNCRCPoliticiansChartImage_000003.png

149 ms

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TopNCRCGroupsChartImage_000004.png

207 ms

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norton_by_symantec.png

223 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

80 ms

Accessibility Review

congressionalreportcards.org accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

congressionalreportcards.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

congressionalreportcards.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Congressionalreportcards.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 Congressionalreportcards.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

congressionalreportcards.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Congressional Report Cards. 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: