Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

psychology.ca.gov

California Board of Psychology

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

684 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

Visit psychology.ca.gov now to see the best up-to-date Psychology Ca content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about psychology.ca.gov

A website for the State of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Psychology

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Key Findings

We analyzed Psychology.ca.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 684 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

psychology.ca.gov performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

psychology.ca.gov

684 ms

styles.css

296 ms

navigation-megadropdown.css

150 ms

slideshow.css

151 ms

design03g.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Psychology.ca.gov, 20% (14 requests) were made to Dca.ca.gov and 7% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (684 ms) belongs to the original domain Psychology.ca.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

381.7 kB

After Optimization

269.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Psychology.ca.gov main page is 381.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 164.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 4.6 kB, which is 12% 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 29.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 164.5 kB
  • After minification 146.9 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, Psychology Ca needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 154.3 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 106.4 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 47.9 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Psychology.ca.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (51%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Psychology Ca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

psychology.ca.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

psychology.ca.gov best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

psychology.ca.gov SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Psychology.ca.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 Psychology.ca.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Psychology Ca. 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: