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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

my.usajobs.gov

USAJOBS - The Federal Government's official employment site

Page Load Speed

964 ms in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

772 ms

Page Rendered

134 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed My.usajobs.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 906 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

my.usajobs.gov performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,850 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.222

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

my.usajobs.gov

58 ms

usaj-responsive

35 ms

usaj-base

73 ms

usajobsSpotLight

65 ms

modernizr

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original My.usajobs.gov, 37% (13 requests) were made to Media.usajobs.gov and 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (213 ms) relates to the external source Media.usajobs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.5 kB (31%)

Content Size

443.2 kB

After Optimization

306.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of My.usajobs.gov main page is 443.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 340.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 47.8 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 11.7 kB, which is 24% 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 40.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 68.7 kB

  • Original 340.5 kB
  • After minification 271.8 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, My USAJOBS needs image optimization as it can save up to 68.7 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 38.0 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 20.0 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. My.usajobs.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (17%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My USAJOBS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

my.usajobs.gov

my.usajobs.gov

58 ms

usaj-responsive

usaj-responsive

35 ms

usaj-base

usaj-base

73 ms

usajobsSpotLight

usajobsSpotLight

65 ms

modernizr

modernizr

13 ms

GSAAnalytics-min.js

GSAAnalytics-min.js

198 ms

usajobs-sm2.png

usajobs-sm2.png

113 ms

usajobs-logo.png

usajobs-logo.png

116 ms

usaj-help-blue.png

usaj-help-blue.png

117 ms

loading_transparent.gif

loading_transparent.gif

117 ms

usaj-si.png

usaj-si.png

112 ms

ubuntu-v7-latin_greek-ext_cyrillic-ext_greek_latin-ext_cyrillic-regular.woff

ubuntu-v7-latin_greek-ext_cyrillic-ext_greek_latin-ext_cyrillic-regular.woff

115 ms

ubuntu-v7-latin_greek-ext_cyrillic-ext_greek_latin-ext_cyrillic-500.woff

ubuntu-v7-latin_greek-ext_cyrillic-ext_greek_latin-ext_cyrillic-500.woff

125 ms

ubuntu-v7-latin_greek-ext_cyrillic-ext_greek_latin-ext_cyrillic-300.woff

ubuntu-v7-latin_greek-ext_cyrillic-ext_greek_latin-ext_cyrillic-300.woff

147 ms

ga.js

ga.js

189 ms

RRB.png

RRB.png

116 ms

GetStatus

GetStatus

85 ms

HHS.png

HHS.png

162 ms

NIH1.png

NIH1.png

187 ms

naval%20hospital.jpg

naval%20hospital.jpg

189 ms

DFAS.png

DFAS.png

188 ms

FEMALogoClr120x60_20160219082312_326889.jpg

FEMALogoClr120x60_20160219082312_326889.jpg

191 ms

USAJOBS4.png

USAJOBS4.png

189 ms

blm2016.gif

blm2016.gif

187 ms

ssp.gif

ssp.gif

198 ms

FBI%20small.png

FBI%20small.png

191 ms

him2.png

him2.png

193 ms

att.gif

att.gif

192 ms

fbp.png

fbp.png

213 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

31 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

31 ms

foresee-surveydef.js

foresee-surveydef.js

46 ms

foresee-dhtml.css

foresee-dhtml.css

21 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

18 ms

Accessibility Review

my.usajobs.gov accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

my.usajobs.gov best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

my.usajobs.gov SEO score

85

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

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 My.usajobs.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 My.usajobs.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

my.usajobs.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My USAJOBS. 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: