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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

shadowfed.org

Shadow Open Market Committee (SOMC) | Manhattan Institute

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

661 ms

Page Rendered

858 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shadowfed.org page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shadowfed.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,280 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shadowfed.org

43 ms

somc

64 ms

style.min.css

7 ms

style.css

16 ms

daterangepicker.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shadowfed.org, 49% (19 requests) were made to Manhattan.institute and 31% (12 requests) were made to Media4.manhattan-institute.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.virtuoussoftware.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 440.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shadowfed.org main page is 2.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 194.0 kB

  • Original 228.4 kB
  • After minification 218.2 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 194.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 144.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Shadow Fed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 100.8 kB

  • Original 503.6 kB
  • After minification 499.2 kB
  • After compression 402.8 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 100.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 590 B

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Shadowfed.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (56%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shadow Fed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shadowfed.org

shadowfed.org

43 ms

somc

somc

64 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

7 ms

style.css

style.css

16 ms

daterangepicker.css

daterangepicker.css

29 ms

custom-css.css

custom-css.css

28 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

39 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

66 ms

js

js

100 ms

classic-061523.css

classic-061523.css

66 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

112 ms

timeline-open-field.js

timeline-open-field.js

27 ms

main.js

main.js

61 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

57 ms

daterangepicker.js

daterangepicker.js

57 ms

infinite-scroll.pkgd.min.js

infinite-scroll.pkgd.min.js

57 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

56 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

57 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

226 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

225 ms

Fed-Balance-Sheet.jpg

Fed-Balance-Sheet.jpg

224 ms

MichaelBordo.png

MichaelBordo.png

251 ms

Jim-Bullard.jpg

Jim-Bullard.jpg

252 ms

charles-calomiris-2023-web-scholars.jpg

charles-calomiris-2023-web-scholars.jpg

250 ms

hess_greg.jpg

hess_greg.jpg

216 ms

ireland_somc.jpg

ireland_somc.jpg

250 ms

BN-SU728_NP_lac_M_20170404152742-3.jpg

BN-SU728_NP_lac_M_20170404152742-3.jpg

252 ms

AndrewLevin.jpg

AndrewLevin.jpg

250 ms

Mickey-Levy.jpg

Mickey-Levy.jpg

280 ms

Deborah-Lucas.png

Deborah-Lucas.png

313 ms

AthanasiosOrphanides-1.jpg

AthanasiosOrphanides-1.jpg

288 ms

Charles-Plosser.jpg

Charles-Plosser.jpg

331 ms

virtuous.tracker.shim.min.js

virtuous.tracker.shim.min.js

374 ms

l1_lemoli-bol-1_pro_ws_z01-f79656c8.woff

l1_lemoli-bol-1_pro_ws_z01-f79656c8.woff

48 ms

l1_lemoli-reg-1_pro_ws_z01-7ac27053.woff

l1_lemoli-reg-1_pro_ws_z01-7ac27053.woff

69 ms

GT-America-Standard-Light.woff

GT-America-Standard-Light.woff

97 ms

GT-America-Standard-Regular.woff

GT-America-Standard-Regular.woff

48 ms

GT-America-Standard-Bold.woff

GT-America-Standard-Bold.woff

47 ms

Accessibility Review

shadowfed.org accessibility score

74

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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>).

Best Practices

shadowfed.org best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

shadowfed.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Shadowfed.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 Shadowfed.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

shadowfed.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shadow Fed. 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: