Access elections.calmatters.org. Meet the Applicants

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.248

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

elections.calmatters.org

170 ms

1350 ms

all.js

638 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

199 ms

style.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Elections.calmatters.org, 13% (12 requests) were made to Img.youtube.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Elections.calmatters.org.

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Elections.calmatters.org main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

Original 124.4 kB
After minification 103.7 kB
After compression 24.6 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 20.8 kB, which is 17% 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 99.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.4 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. Election S CALmatters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 64.3 kB

Original 126.0 kB
After minification 126.0 kB
After compression 61.7 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 64.3 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

Original 9.2 kB
After minification 9.2 kB
After compression 7.4 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. Elections.calmatters.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Election S CALmatters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role] values are not valid

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

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

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Elections.calmatters.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 Elections.calmatters.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

elections.calmatters.org

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Meet the Applicants - CALmatters 2018 Election Guide

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

elections.calmatters.org

all.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

style.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

elections.calmatters.org

all.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

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