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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

foreignassistance.gov

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Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Foreignassistance.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

foreignassistance.gov performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,100 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

foreignassistance.gov

30 ms

beta.foreignassistance.gov

2791 ms

css

26 ms

app.css

258 ms

hero5.jpg

429 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Foreignassistance.gov, 71% (22 requests) were made to Beta.foreignassistance.gov and 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Beta.foreignassistance.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 884.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

720.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Foreignassistance.gov main page is 1.6 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. HTML takes 661.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 531.6 kB

  • Original 661.3 kB
  • After minification 657.9 kB
  • After compression 129.7 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. 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 531.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 447.7 kB
  • After minification 419.5 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. Foreignassistance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 324.5 kB

  • Original 495.5 kB
  • After minification 495.5 kB
  • After compression 171.0 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 324.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (17%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Foreignassistance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

foreignassistance.gov

foreignassistance.gov

30 ms

beta.foreignassistance.gov

beta.foreignassistance.gov

2791 ms

css

css

26 ms

app.css

app.css

258 ms

hero5.jpg

hero5.jpg

429 ms

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usaid.png

242 ms

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pc.png

342 ms

dos.png

dos.png

338 ms

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255 ms

mcc.png

mcc.png

313 ms

usda.png

usda.png

423 ms

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iaf.png

467 ms

treasury.png

treasury.png

403 ms

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dod.png

504 ms

hhs.png

hhs.png

424 ms

header-circle.png

header-circle.png

309 ms

arrows-scroll.png

arrows-scroll.png

329 ms

map-dotted.png

map-dotted.png

418 ms

map-section.jpg

map-section.jpg

319 ms

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33 ms

fa-icons.woff

fa-icons.woff

297 ms

require.js

require.js

244 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

6 ms

update.min.js

update.min.js

19 ms

config.js

config.js

182 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

print.css

print.css

86 ms

index.js

index.js

181 ms

Accessibility Review

foreignassistance.gov accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

foreignassistance.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

foreignassistance.gov SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Foreignassistance.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Foreignassistance.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

foreignassistance.gov

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