Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

nalc.org

National Association of Letter Carriers AFL-CIO

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

nalc.org screenshot

About Website

Visit nalc.org now to see the best up-to-date Nalc content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nalc.org

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is the national labor union of city delivery letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nalc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nalc.org performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.39

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nalc.org

154 ms

www.nalc.org

154 ms

www.nalc.org

291 ms

reset.css

67 ms

type.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Nalc.org, 20% (13 requests) were made to and 5% (3 requests) were made to Secure.comodo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) belongs to the original domain Nalc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 635.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Nalc.org main page is 2.4 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 90.0 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 16.4 kB, which is 15% 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 89.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

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. Nalc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 392.5 kB

  • Original 588.8 kB
  • After minification 471.5 kB
  • After compression 196.3 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 392.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 93.1 kB

  • Original 129.7 kB
  • After minification 106.6 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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. Nalc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (49%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nalc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nalc.org accessibility score

90

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

nalc.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

nalc.org SEO score

88

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

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 Nalc.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 Nalc.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 data is detected on the main page of Nalc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: