Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

mdarmyguard.com

The Maryland Army National Guard Official Recruiting Website

Page Load Speed

678 ms in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

302 ms

Page Rendered

182 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mdarmyguard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 484 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mdarmyguard.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mdarmyguard.com

194 ms

LightDarkbutton.css

8 ms

jquery-latest.pack.js

17 ms

dmxHTML5Slideshow.css

9 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Mdarmyguard.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (194 ms) belongs to the original domain Mdarmyguard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

875.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Mdarmyguard.com main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 869.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 18.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 59.3 kB

  • Original 869.0 kB
  • After minification 809.7 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. Md Army Guard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 78.0 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 132.6 kB
  • After compression 59.3 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 78.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Mdarmyguard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (41%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Md Army Guard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mdarmyguard.com accessibility score

79

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

mdarmyguard.com best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mdarmyguard.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mdarmyguard.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Mdarmyguard.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Md Army Guard. 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: