Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

classic.smartvoter.org

Smart Voter by the League of Women Voters. Comprehensive, Nonpartisan Election Information

Page Load Speed

970 ms in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

586 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

classic.smartvoter.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to classic.smartvoter.org homepage info - get ready to check Classic Smart Voter best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about classic.smartvoter.org

Type in your address and see the choices on your ballot for the current election. Free web pages for local candidates. (In supported states and counties). League of Women Voters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Classic.smartvoter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 718 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

classic.smartvoter.org performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,720 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

classic.smartvoter.org

252 ms

voter_style2010-3.css

123 ms

addthis_widget.js

28 ms

sv_logo.jpg

141 ms

sv_wordmark.png

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Classic.smartvoter.org, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (252 ms) belongs to the original domain Classic.smartvoter.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

74.3 kB

After Optimization

55.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Classic.smartvoter.org main page is 74.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 4.2 kB, which is 26% 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 11.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 32.7 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. Classic Smart Voter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Classic.smartvoter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classic Smart Voter. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

classic.smartvoter.org accessibility score

56

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

classic.smartvoter.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

classic.smartvoter.org SEO score

69

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Classic.smartvoter.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 Classic.smartvoter.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 description is not detected on the main page of Classic Smart Voter. 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: