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gutierrez.house.gov

Congressman Luis Gutierrez | Representing the 4th District of Illinois

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

297 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gutierrez.house.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 4.2 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

gutierrez.house.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gutierrez.house.gov

280 ms

system.base.css

198 ms

system.menus.css

348 ms

system.messages.css

149 ms

system.theme.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Gutierrez.house.gov, 16% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (10 requests) were made to Democraticwhip.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (840 ms) belongs to the original domain Gutierrez.house.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 804.7 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Gutierrez.house.gov main page is 1.9 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 912.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 12.4 kB, which is 16% 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 60.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 912.9 kB
  • After minification 865.2 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. Gutierrez House images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 395.4 kB

  • Original 586.9 kB
  • After minification 560.7 kB
  • After compression 191.5 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 395.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 301.2 kB

  • Original 364.7 kB
  • After minification 334.4 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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. Gutierrez.house.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 301.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (57%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gutierrez House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gutierrez.house.gov SEO score

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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 Gutierrez.house.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 Gutierrez.house.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

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