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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

nicic.gov

National Institute of Corrections | National Institute of Corrections

Page Load Speed

37.8 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

22.6 sec

Page Rendered

14.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nicic.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 37.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nicic.gov performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.457

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nicic.gov

264 ms

nicic.gov

2622 ms

static-screen.css

94 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

136 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Nicic.gov, 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.4 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 862.1 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

955.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nicic.gov main page is 1.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 799.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.0 kB

  • Original 134.2 kB
  • After minification 113.2 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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 21.0 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 110.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 130.1 kB

  • Original 799.8 kB
  • After minification 669.7 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. Obviously, Nicic needs image optimization as it can save up to 130.1 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 539.6 kB

  • Original 784.6 kB
  • After minification 767.7 kB
  • After compression 245.0 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 539.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 82.5 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 74.6 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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. Nicic.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (49%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nicic. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nicic.gov

nicic.gov

264 ms

nicic.gov

nicic.gov

2622 ms

static-screen.css

static-screen.css

94 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

136 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

171 ms

js.ashx

js.ashx

186 ms

Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js

Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js

540 ms

jquery.autofix_anything.js

jquery.autofix_anything.js

158 ms

jquery.qtip-1.0.min.js

jquery.qtip-1.0.min.js

147 ms

static-screen.css

static-screen.css

211 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

353 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

369 ms

jquery.qtip-1.0.min.js

jquery.qtip-1.0.min.js

289 ms

static.js

static.js

318 ms

css

css

313 ms

print.css

print.css

1833 ms

cse.js

cse.js

1144 ms

print.css

print.css

163 ms

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logo_doj_background.gif

160 ms

logo_doj.gif

logo_doj.gif

1864 ms

logo_Global.png

logo_Global.png

158 ms

divider_vertical_175.png

divider_vertical_175.png

2214 ms

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bullet_purple.gif

1808 ms

rightArrow.gif

rightArrow.gif

1837 ms

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2028 ms

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2022 ms

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2021 ms

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2021 ms

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logo_global.png

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logo_doj_background.gif

logo_doj_background.gif

2240 ms

bullet_purple.gif

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715 ms

rightarrow.gif

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999 ms

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968 ms

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966 ms

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bullet_red.gif

770 ms

bullet_yellow.gif

bullet_yellow.gif

745 ms

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banner.ashx

592 ms

bullet_green.gif

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534 ms

bullet_blue.gif

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534 ms

bullet_grey.gif

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516 ms

xml.gif

xml.gif

515 ms

mail.gif

mail.gif

516 ms

ical.gif

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528 ms

html.gif

html.gif

476 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

3216 ms

jsapi

jsapi

11417 ms

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10492 ms

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10493 ms

background_BottomWhiteFade.png

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10492 ms

arrow_next.png

arrow_next.png

10650 ms

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background_blackvfade_140.png

8355 ms

RandomTopicHandler.ashx

RandomTopicHandler.ashx

4039 ms

colorbox_loading.gif

colorbox_loading.gif

1955 ms

colorbox_controls.png

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1915 ms

ani_loadingSmall.gif

ani_loadingSmall.gif

2020 ms

linkid.js

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1209 ms

bullet_white.gif

bullet_white.gif

799 ms

background_bottomwhitefade.png

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751 ms

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749 ms

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726 ms

ani_loadingsmall.gif

ani_loadingsmall.gif

2567 ms

Accessibility Review

nicic.gov accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

nicic.gov best practices score

62

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nicic.gov SEO score

99

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 Nicic.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 Nicic.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

nicic.gov

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