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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

ontheissues.org

OnTheIssues.org - Candidates on the Issues

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

549 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ontheissues.org page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ontheissues.org performance score

50

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,930 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ontheissues.org

82 ms

default.htm

370 ms

speakout.css

109 ms

fpi.js

4 ms

show_ads.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 183 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Ontheissues.org, 7% (13 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com and 7% (13 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) belongs to the original domain Ontheissues.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

838.9 kB

After Optimization

481.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ontheissues.org main page is 838.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 361.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 155.3 kB

  • Original 185.1 kB
  • After minification 154.6 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 30.5 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 155.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 361.0 kB
  • After minification 340.8 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. On The Issues images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 175.8 kB

  • Original 285.9 kB
  • After minification 279.2 kB
  • After compression 110.1 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 175.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 826 B

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. Ontheissues.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 111 (66%)

Requests Now

167

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 167 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of On The Issues. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ontheissues.org accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

ontheissues.org best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ontheissues.org SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ontheissues.org 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 Ontheissues.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

ontheissues.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of On The Issues. 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: