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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

fulbright.state.gov

Fulbright | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fulbright.state.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fulbright.state.gov performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,050 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.145

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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133 ms

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Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fulbright.state.gov, 79% (44 requests) were made to Eca.state.gov and 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Eca.state.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 225.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

945.3 kB

After Optimization

719.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fulbright.state.gov main page is 945.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 679.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 44.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

  • Original 679.5 kB
  • After minification 550.9 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. Obviously, Fulbright State needs image optimization as it can save up to 128.6 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 151.2 kB
  • After minification 150.5 kB
  • After compression 101.0 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 50.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 57.2 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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. Fulbright.state.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fulbright State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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133 ms

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Accessibility Review

fulbright.state.gov accessibility score

94

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.

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

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

fulbright.state.gov best practices score

58

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

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

fulbright.state.gov SEO score

74

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fulbright.state.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 Fulbright.state.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

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