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Report Summary

About Website

Visit solarstates.org now to see the best up-to-date Solar States content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about solarstates.org

IREC's annual Solar Jobs Census is the authoritative account on solar jobs and the state of the solar workforce.

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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.1 s

0/100

10%

56 ms

gtm.js

61 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

style-index.css

56 ms

style.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Solarstates.org, 9% (10 requests) were made to Datawrapper.dwcdn.net and 4% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) relates to the external source Irecusa.org.

Content Size

15.6 MB

After Optimization

11.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Solarstates.org main page is 15.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

Original 156.3 kB
After minification 149.3 kB
After compression 36.1 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. 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 120.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 3.3 MB

Original 14.3 MB
After minification 10.9 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. Obviously, Solar States needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.3 MB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 323.8 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 MB
After compression 751.5 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 323.8 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

Original 115.1 kB
After minification 113.1 kB
After compression 90.0 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. Solarstates.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar States. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

High

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

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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/).

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 Solarstates.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 Solarstates.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

solarstates.org

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

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Solar Jobs Census - Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC)

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About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)