Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

costofwar.com

Cost of National Security: Counting How Much the U.S. Spends Per Hour

Page Load Speed

825 ms in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

344 ms

Page Rendered

460 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Costofwar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 804 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

costofwar.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

costofwar.com

21 ms

17 ms

62 ms

61e884b79188.css

58 ms

modernizr.min.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Costofwar.com, 67% (8 requests) were made to Static.nationalpriorities.org and 17% (2 requests) were made to Nationalpriorities.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (70 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 334.7 kB (74%)

Content Size

451.7 kB

After Optimization

117.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Costofwar.com main page is 451.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 214.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 96.1 kB

  • Original 108.8 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 11.9 kB, which is 11% 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 96.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Cost Ofwar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 129.4 kB

  • Original 214.6 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 85.2 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 129.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 126.3 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Costofwar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (33%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cost Ofwar. 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.

Accessibility Review

costofwar.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

costofwar.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

costofwar.com SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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