Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

govleaders.org

GovLeaders.org - Growing Leaders for the Public Service

Page Load Speed

685 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

501 ms

Page Rendered

142 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Govleaders.org page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 643 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

govleaders.org performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.231

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

govleaders.org

42 ms

govleaders.org

68 ms

govleaders2021index.css

56 ms

jquery.min.js

18 ms

responsivemobilemenu.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Govleaders.org, 14% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (202 ms) belongs to the original domain Govleaders.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

677.2 kB

After Optimization

594.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Govleaders.org main page is 677.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 434.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 39.6 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 5.5 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 39.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 434.4 kB
  • After minification 398.2 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. Gov Leaders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 176.2 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 174.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. Govleaders.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gov Leaders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

govleaders.org accessibility score

93

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

govleaders.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

govleaders.org SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Govleaders.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 Govleaders.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

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