Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

search.osha.gov

Home | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.osha.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

search.osha.gov performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

search.osha.gov

179 ms

search.osha.gov

32 ms

www.osha.gov

272 ms

bootstrap.css

17 ms

prettify.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Search.osha.gov, 56% (35 requests) were made to Osha.gov and 6% (4 requests) were made to Search.usa.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (419 ms) relates to the external source Dap.digitalgov.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 775.5 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

896.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Search.osha.gov main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 603.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 185.3 kB

  • Original 230.3 kB
  • After minification 160.7 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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 69.7 kB, which is 30% 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 185.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 465.8 kB
  • After minification 429.9 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. Search Osha images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 243.3 kB

  • Original 603.5 kB
  • After minification 577.9 kB
  • After compression 360.1 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 243.3 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 311.0 kB

  • Original 372.7 kB
  • After minification 309.6 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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. Search.osha.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (60%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Osha. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

search.osha.gov accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

search.osha.gov best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

search.osha.gov SEO score

73

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Search.osha.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 Search.osha.gov main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Search Osha. 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: