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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

whatsontheballot.com

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2022 General Elections | Bolts

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

938 ms

Page Rendered

550 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatsontheballot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 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

whatsontheballot.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whatsontheballot.com

143 ms

341 ms

css2

68 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Whatsontheballot.com, 72% (34 requests) were made to Boltsmag.org and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (341 ms) relates to the external source Boltsmag.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

815.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whatsontheballot.com main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 495.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 241.9 kB

  • Original 307.0 kB
  • After minification 304.3 kB
  • After compression 65.1 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 241.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 495.7 kB
  • After minification 495.7 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. Whatsontheballot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 187.6 kB
  • After minification 187.6 kB
  • After compression 185.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 598 B

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 69.6 kB
  • After compression 69.0 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. Whatsontheballot.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (88%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whatsontheballot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

whatsontheballot.com

whatsontheballot.com

143 ms

341 ms

css2

css2

68 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

33 ms

custom.css

custom.css

51 ms

ga.js

ga.js

64 ms

6d34bbc5ac.js

6d34bbc5ac.js

113 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

51 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

62 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

93 ms

gsap.min.js

gsap.min.js

95 ms

js

js

103 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

53 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

55 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

53 ms

slick.css

slick.css

54 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

57 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

56 ms

basic.min.css

basic.min.css

56 ms

theme-ie11.min.css

theme-ie11.min.css

68 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

213 ms

lightweight-accordion.min.css

lightweight-accordion.min.css

210 ms

code.js

code.js

186 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

211 ms

e-202448.js

e-202448.js

57 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

67 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

224 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

211 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

211 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

226 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

224 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

226 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

225 ms

api.js

api.js

209 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

227 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

225 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

226 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

227 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

144 ms

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Accessibility Review

whatsontheballot.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

whatsontheballot.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

whatsontheballot.com SEO score

84

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Whatsontheballot.com 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 Whatsontheballot.com 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 Whatsontheballot. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: