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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

opencongress.org

OpenCongress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

698 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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About Website

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

OpenCongress helps you track bills, senators, representatives as well as gain access to hundreds of legal forms and templates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Opencongress.org page load time and found that the first response time was 698 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

opencongress.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.opencongress.org

698 ms

sf-icons.css

122 ms

brandingbar.css

201 ms

xev8qlf.js

267 ms

brandingbar.min.js.gz

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Opencongress.org, 9% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Sunlight-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (698 ms) belongs to the original domain Opencongress.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Opencongress.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 6.7 kB, which is 14% 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 37.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 733.6 kB
  • After minification 671.6 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. Open Congress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 699.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 947.6 kB
  • After compression 308.3 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 699.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 503.7 kB

  • Original 599.2 kB
  • After minification 597.5 kB
  • After compression 95.5 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. Opencongress.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 503.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (48%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open Congress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.opencongress.org

www.opencongress.org

698 ms

sf-icons.css

sf-icons.css

122 ms

brandingbar.css

brandingbar.css

201 ms

xev8qlf.js

xev8qlf.js

267 ms

brandingbar.min.js.gz

brandingbar.min.js.gz

76 ms

frontpage.css

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27 ms

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common.js

23 ms

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50 ms

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19 ms

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frontpage.js

47 ms

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45 ms

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75 ms

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67 ms

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61 ms

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58 ms

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56 ms

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56 ms

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56 ms

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57 ms

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57 ms

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58 ms

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57 ms

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57 ms

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58 ms

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60 ms

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59 ms

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58 ms

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60 ms

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61 ms

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51 ms

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51 ms

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p.gif

186 ms

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30 ms

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25 ms

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25 ms

ga.js

ga.js

60 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

59 ms

all.js

all.js

82 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

107 ms

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icon-dropdown.png

34 ms

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__utm.gif

51 ms

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collect

42 ms

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sunlight-logo.svg

44 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

50 ms

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sf-icons.svg

23 ms

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sf-icons.woff

59 ms

chartbeat.js

chartbeat.js

31 ms

like.php

like.php

140 ms

login_button.php

login_button.php

133 ms

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ping

33 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

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33 ms

Accessibility Review

opencongress.org accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

opencongress.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

opencongress.org SEO score

97

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 Opencongress.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 Opencongress.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

opencongress.org

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