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Overview

Snoop Summary for house.gov

This is a free and comprehensive report about house.gov. Our records indicate that house.gov is owned/operated by United States House of Representatives. House.gov is expected to earn an estimated $1,367 USD per day from advertising revenue. The sale of house.gov would possibly be worth $997,715 USD. This figure is based on the daily revenue potential of the website over a 24 month period. House.gov receives an estimated 217,807 unique visitors every day - an insane amount of traffic! This report was last updated 1st October, 2021.

About house.gov

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Title: United States House of Representatives
Description: Information on the lower body of the federal legislature: about the legislative process, this week's House calendar, committee schedules, roll call vote records, and links to House committees and individual members of Congress.
Keywords and Tags: adam schiff, alexandria ocasio cortez, devin nunes, elijah cummings, elise stefanik, eric swalwell, government, house of representatives, ilhan omar, jerry nadler, jim jordan, justin amash, legislative branch, mark meadows, maxine waters, military, nancy pelosi, north america, opinions, politics, popular, regional, religion, schiff, united states
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Snoop Score

3/5 (Great!)

Valuation

$997,715 USD
Note: All valuation figures are estimates.

Popularity

Very High
Note: Popularity is estimated.

Rank, Reach and Authority

Alexa Rank: 8,189
Alexa Reach: 0.0087%
SEMrush Rank (US): 448
SEMrush Authority Score: 83
Moz Domain Authority: 0
Moz Page Authority: 0

Rank By Country

Country Alexa Rank
Canada Flag Canada 24,355
United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom 8,817
India Flag India 65,312
Pakistan Flag Pakistan 23,260
Russian Federation Flag Russian Federation 41,433
United States Flag United States 1,248

Organic vs Paid (Google Ads)

Organic Paid
Keywords: 1,144,842 7
Traffic: 7,599,835 4
Cost: $35,982,857 USD $3 USD
Traffic

Visitors

Daily Visitors: 217,807
Monthly Visitors: 6,629,346
Yearly Visitors: 79,499,405
Note: All visitors figures are estimates.

Visitors By Country

Country Visitors (Unique) Percentage
Canada Flag Canada Daily: 1,307
Monthly: 39,776
Yearly: 476,996
0.6%
United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom Daily: 2,614
Monthly: 79,552
Yearly: 953,993
1.2%
India Flag India Daily: 3,049
Monthly: 92,811
Yearly: 1,112,992
1.4%
Other Daily: 12,415
Monthly: 377,873
Yearly: 4,531,466
5.7%
Pakistan Flag Pakistan Daily: 1,307
Monthly: 39,776
Yearly: 476,996
0.6%
Russian Federation Flag Russian Federation Daily: 1,089
Monthly: 33,147
Yearly: 397,497
0.5%
United States Flag United States Daily: 196,026
Monthly: 5,966,412
Yearly: 71,549,464
90%
Note: All visitors figures are estimates.
Revenue

Revenue

Daily Revenue: $1,367 USD
Monthly Revenue: $41,599 USD
Yearly Revenue: $498,853 USD
Note: All revenue figures are estimates.

Revenue By Country

Country Revenue Percentage
Canada Flag Canada Daily: $1 USD
Monthly: $23 USD
Yearly: $272 USD
0.1%
United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom Daily: $3 USD
Monthly: $84 USD
Yearly: $1,002 USD
0.2%
India Flag India Daily: $3 USD
Monthly: $88 USD
Yearly: $1,051 USD
0.2%
Other Daily: $0 USD
Monthly: $0 USD
Yearly: $0 USD
<0.1%
Pakistan Flag Pakistan Daily: $0 USD
Monthly: $5 USD
Yearly: $63 USD
<0.1%
Russian Federation Flag Russian Federation Daily: $0 USD
Monthly: $2 USD
Yearly: $23 USD
<0.1%
United States Flag United States Daily: $1,360 USD
Monthly: $41,398 USD
Yearly: $496,441 USD
99.5%
Note: All revenue figures are estimates.
SEO

Backlinks Analysis (SEMrush)

Backlinks: 123,231,180
Referring Domains: 176,559
Referring IPs: 139,600
House.gov has 123,231,180 backlinks according to SEMrush. 94% of these backlinks are "dofollow" (follow) links which allow the flow of link equity to pass through, which may improve house.gov's search engine rankings. Other links are treated as 'hints' by search engines and may also pass link equity, depending on what search engines decide in each case.
100% of house.gov's backlinks are text and image links, which are ideal for SEO. Other backlink types may be unrecognized or ignored by search engines.

Top New Follow Links

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Source: https://www.eff.org/
Target: https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=2823

2
Source: https://www.eff.org/
Target: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20200226/110582/HMKP-116-JU00-20200226-SD001.pdf

3
Source: https://lifehacker.com/
Target: https://waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-democrats-introduce-families-first-coronavirus-response-act

4
Source: https://jezebel.com/
Target: https://kuster.house.gov/sites/kuster.house.gov/files/2.20.2020%20Letter%20to%20Match%20Group.pdf

5
Source: https://www.epic.org/
Target: https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=2823

Top Ranking Keywords (US)

1
Keyword: nancy pelosi
Ranked Page: https://pelosi.house.gov/

2
Keyword: adam schiff
Ranked Page: https://schiff.house.gov/

3
Keyword: jim jordan
Ranked Page: https://jordan.house.gov/

4
Keyword: jerry nadler
Ranked Page: https://nadler.house.gov/

5
Keyword: maxine waters
Ranked Page: https://waters.house.gov/

Domain Analysis

Value Length
Domain: house.gov 9
Domain Name: house 5
Extension (TLD): gov 3

Page Speed Analysis

Average Load Time: 0.91 seconds
Load Time Comparison: Faster than 82% of sites

PageSpeed Insights

Avg. (All Categories) 77
Performance 81
Accessibility 100
Best Practices 87
SEO 82
Progressive Web App 36
0–49 (Fail) 50–89 (Average) 90–100 (Pass)
URL: https://www.house.gov/
Updated: 1st October, 2021

1.76 seconds
First Contentful Paint (FCP)
77%
16%
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0.00 seconds
First Input Delay (FID)
97%
1%
2%

Simulate loading on desktop
81

Performance

Indicates how well the page is performing and highlights opportunities where performance may be improved for house.gov. This includes details about optimizing page load times which can result in a better user experience.

Metrics

First Contentful Paint — 0.8 s
The time taken for the first image or text on the page to be rendered.
Speed Index — 1.2 s
The time taken for the page contents to be visibly populated.
Time to Interactive — 1.8 s
The time taken for the page to become fully interactive.

Other

First Meaningful Paint — 0.8 s
The time taken for the primary content of the page to be rendered.
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Network Round Trip Times — 0 ms
High Network RTT (Round Trip Times) can have a large impact on performance. Providing servers geographically closer to the user could improve performance.
Server Backend Latencies — 0 ms
High server latencies indicate the server is overloaded or has a poor backend performance.
Tasks
Below is a list of the top-level main thread tasks that executed during page load.
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Diagnostics
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Metrics
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Opportunities

Eliminate render-blocking resources — Potential savings of 110 ms
Resources, such as JavaScript and style sheets, can block the first paint of the page. House.gov should consider delivering critical JavaScript/style sheets (JS/CSS) inline and deferring all non-critical JS/CSS.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Ms)
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Properly size images — Potential savings of 197 KiB
Images can slow down the page's load time. House.gov should consider serving more appropriate-sized images.
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Defer offscreen images
Time to Interactive can be slowed down by resources on the page. House.gov should consider lazy-loading offscreen and hidden images.
Minify CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files can contribute to network payload sizes. House.gov should consider minifying CSS files.
Minify JavaScript
JavaScript (JS) files can contribute to network payload sizes and increase script parse times. House.gov should consider minifying JS files.
Reduce unused CSS — Potential savings of 23 KiB
Dead and/or unused rules in Style Sheets (CSS) can contribute to network payload sizes. House.gov should consider removing dead rules from style sheets and deferring the loading of CSS not used for above-the-fold content.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
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Reduce unused JavaScript — Potential savings of 41 KiB
It is advised to remove unused JavaScript in order to reduce bytes consumed by network activity.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
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Efficiently encode images — Potential savings of 16 KiB
Unoptimized images can consume more cellular data than what is necessary.
URL Resource Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
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41303
11525
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgBody_lg.jpg
36023
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Serve images in next-gen formats — Potential savings of 162 KiB
Consider JPEG 2000, JPEG XR or WebP image formats which provide better compression than PNG and JPEG.
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Enable text compression
Text-based resources should be served with compression, such as gzip, deflate or brotli.
Preconnect to required origins
Resource hints, such as 'preconnect' or 'dns-prefetch', may assist in establishing early connections to important third-party origins.
Initial server response time was short — Root document took 180 ms
It is advised to keep the server response time short for the main document, because all other requests depend on it.
URL Time Spent (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/
182.675
Preload key requests
Key requests can be preloaded by using '<link rel=preload>'. House.gov should consider using '<link rel=preload>' to prioritize fetching resources that are currently requested later in page load.
Use video formats for animated content
Large GIFs are inefficient for delivering animated content. It is recommended to use MPEG4/WebM videos for animations and PNG/WebP for static images instead of GIF.
Remove duplicate modules in JavaScript bundles
Ensure that no duplicate JavaScript modules from bundles exist to reduce bytes consumed by network activity.
Avoid serving legacy JavaScript to modern browsers — Potential savings of 0 KiB
Polyfills and transforms enable legacy browsers to use new JavaScript features. For bundled JavaScript it is recommended to adopt a modern script deployment strategy using module/nomodule feature detection. This will reduce the amount of code shipped to modern browsers.
URL Potential Savings (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
59
Preload Largest Contentful Paint image
It is recommended to preload images used by LCP elements, to improve LCP time.

Diagnostics

Avoids enormous network payloads — Total size was 824 KiB
Large network payloads can cost users money and are linked to long load times.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
88849
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
54151
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgHTML.jpg
41846
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreen.gif
40203
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/HouseLive_1.jpg?itok=8xPqtNyW
39376
https://www.house.gov/
37396
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgBody_lg.jpg
36566
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=AAR34I0W
36305
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=iMiJ1-BV
35956
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Biden-address-cover.jpg?itok=oTkOdV-N
30967
Avoid chaining critical requests — 3 chains found
Below is a list of Critical Request Chains, which shows which resources are loaded with a high priority. House.gov should consider reducing the length of chains, reducing the download size of resources, or deferring the download of unnecessary resources to improve page load.
User Timing marks and measures
Make use of the User Timing API to measure an app's real-world performance during key user experiences.
JavaScript execution time — 0.4 s
JavaScript (JS) execution time can be lowered by reducing the time required for parsing, compiling and executing JS. Delivering smaller JS payloads may help with this.
URL Total CPU Time (Ms) Script Evaluation (Ms) Script Parse (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
405.012
214.654
5.248
https://www.house.gov/
379.543
6.869
4.182
Unattributable
155.738
3.549
0.276
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
132.974
76.917
52.827
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
57.413
53.536
1.104
Minimizes main-thread work — 1.1 s
Main-thread work timing can be lowered by reducing the time required for parsing, compiling and executing JS. Delivering smaller JS payloads may help with this.
Category Time Spent (Ms)
Script Evaluation
355.525
Style & Layout
260.628
Other
251.899
Rendering
114.522
Parse HTML & CSS
96.685
Script Parsing & Compilation
63.637
All text remains visible during webfont loads
Make use of the font-display CSS feature, which will ensure text is user-visible while webfonts are loading.
Keep request counts low and transfer sizes small — 39 requests • 824 KiB
It is advised to add a budgets.json file in order to set budgets for the quantity and size of page resources.
Resource Type Requests Transfer Size (Bytes)
Total
39
843752
Image
28
607070
Script
3
163399
Document
1
37396
Stylesheet
2
34018
Other
5
1869
Media
0
0
Font
0
0
Third-party
5
76601
Minimize third-party usage — Third-party code blocked the main thread for 10 ms
It is advised to either limit, remove or delay the loading of redundant third-party code which may be significantly impacting load performance.
Third-Party Transfer Size (Bytes) Main-Thread Blocking Time (Ms)
54151
13.873
21038
0.783
712
0
700
0
Lazy load third-party resources with facades
Consider replacing third-party embeds with a facade until they are required (use lazy loading).
Largest Contentful Paint element — 1 element found
The element which was identified as the Largest Contentful Paint.
Element
Largest Contentful Paint image was not lazily loaded
Above-the-fold images that are lazily loaded render later in the page lifecycle, which can delay the largest contentful paint.
Element
Avoid large layout shifts — 2 elements found
Below is a list of all DOM elements that contribute to the CLS of the page.
Element CLS Contribution
0.18545602836879
0.0065134620436039
Avoids `document.write()`
Avoid or limit the use of external scripts that are dynamically injected via 'document.write()' as users on slow connections will be delayed by tens of seconds.
Avoid long main-thread tasks — 6 long tasks found
Below is a list of the longest tasks on the main thread, which is useful when identifying the worst input delay contributors.
URL Start Time (Ms) Duration (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
1780
194
https://www.house.gov/
659
72
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
969
67
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
1036
62
Unattributable
190
53
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
1368
53
Avoid non-composited animations
It is recommended to avoid non-composited animations which are often janky and increase CLS.
Image elements have explicit `width` and `height`
Reduce layout shifts and improve CLS by setting explicit width and height properties on image elements.
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
It is advised to use a '<meta name="viewport">' tag for the optimization of house.gov on mobile screens.

Budgets

Performance budget
It is advised to keep the quantity and size of all network requests under the targets set by the provided performance budget.
Timing budget
It is advised to set a timing budget to monitor the performance of your site.

Metrics

Largest Contentful Paint — 1.8 s
The timing of the largest text or image that is painted.
Total Blocking Time — 170 ms
The total blocking time is the sum of all time periods between First Contentful Paint and Time to Interactive (when task length exceeded 50ms).
Cumulative Layout Shift — 0.192
Cumulative Layout Shift is the measurement of visible elements collective movement within the viewport.
View Data

Other

Max Potential First Input Delay — 190 ms
Users could experience a delay when interacting with the page.

Opportunities

Avoid multiple page redirects — Potential savings of 340 ms
Redirects can cause additional delays before the page can begin loading. House.gov should avoid multiple or unnecessary page redirects.
URL Time Spent (Ms)
http://house.gov/
190
https://house.gov/
150
https://www.house.gov/
0

Diagnostics

Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy — 15 resources found
House.gov can speed up repeat visits by increasing the cache lifetime, which is essentially how long before a cached copy expires.
URL Cache TTL (Ms) Transfer Size (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreen.gif
1000
40203
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
7200000
20399
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgFind.jpg
50979000
6582
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreenIn.png
51000000
30021
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgWatch.gif
51037000
1850
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-baic.jpg?itok=MkDVuCfE
75438000
20559
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-haic.jpg?itok=7TMTfPk_
75444000
23225
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/congressional-app-challenge_slider%20800x600_0.jpg?itok=DjL4fb8p
75467000
16899
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/dome-night2-480-360.jpg?itok=EQ6fNKPL
75498000
16865
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=iMiJ1-BV
75518000
35956
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-usbg.jpg?itok=JuAzvBBu
75518000
24405
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-kids.jpg?itok=rYmIBKF4
75533000
24128
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-longworth.jpg?itok=xZ7JfsMO
75535000
11410
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Biden-address-cover.jpg?itok=oTkOdV-N
75570000
30967
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-women.jpg?itok=Z73FpmmT
82104000
21100
Avoid an excessive DOM size — 3,856 elements
A large DOM (Document Object Model) will increase memory usage, cause longer system calculations as well as costly layout reflows.
Statistic Element Value
Total DOM Elements
3856
Maximum DOM Depth
32
Maximum Child Elements
64
Does not use passive listeners to improve scrolling performance
Improve the page's scroll performance by marking touch and wheel event listeners as 'passive'.
Source
100

Accessibility

Indicates how accessible the page is and highlights opportunities where the page can be made more accessible to users of house.gov. This includes details about various page attributes that can be optimized.

Navigation

`[accesskey]` values are unique
Access keys assist users with focusing on different parts of the page. Each access key should be unique for proper navigation.
The page contains a heading, skip link, or landmark region
It is advised to provide ways to bypass repetitive content, allowing users to navigate the page efficiently.
`[id]` attributes on active, focusable elements are unique
Ensure all focusable elements have a unique id value to allow them to be visible to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order
Properly order all headers and do not skip heading levels to better the navigation and readability for users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
No element has a `[tabindex]` value greater than 0
Although technically valid, a tabindex value greater than 0 often creates frustrating experiences for users who rely on assistive technologies.

ARIA

`[aria-*]` attributes match their roles
Avoid mismatching 'aria-*' attributes and their 'role' value, as it invalidates the attribute.
`button`, `link`, and `menuitem` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
`[aria-hidden="true"]` is not present on the document `<body>`
If aria-hidden=true is set on the document body, assistive technologies, like a screen reader will work inconsistently.
`[aria-hidden="true"]` elements do not contain focusable descendents
Interactive elements within an aria-hidden=true element are unavailable to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
ARIA input fields have accessible names
Generic names are announced to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader, when an input field does not have an accessible name specified.
ARIA `meter` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
ARIA `progressbar` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
`[role]`s have all required `[aria-*]` attributes
Some ARIA roles have required 'aria-*' attributes, which provide essential information about state and functionality.
Elements with an ARIA `[role]` that require children to contain a specific `[role]` have all required children.
Some ARIA parent roles cannot perform their intended functions if specific child roles are not used.
`[role]`s are contained by their required parent element
Some ARIA child roles cannot perform their intended functions if specific parent roles are not used.
`[role]` values are valid
All ARIA roles require valid values to perform their intended functions.
ARIA toggle fields have accessible names
Generic names are announced to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader, when a toggle field does not have an accessible name specified.
ARIA `tooltip` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
ARIA `treeitem` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
`[aria-*]` attributes have valid values
ARIA attributes cannot be interpreted with invalid values when used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
`[aria-*]` attributes are valid and not misspelled
ARIA attributes cannot be interpreted with invalid names when used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
ARIA IDs are unique
Ensure all ARIA ID values are unique to prevent elements from being overlooked by assistive technologies, like a screen reader.

Names and labels

Buttons have an accessible name
Buttons become unusable as they are announced simply as "button" when the button does not have an accessible name, when used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Document has a `<title>` element
Search engines, screen reader users and other assistive technology users rely on the title to provide an overview of the page and to help determine if the page is relevant to their search.
No form fields have multiple labels
Having multiple labels for form fields can be confusing to assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
`<frame>` or `<iframe>` elements have a title
Screen reader users and other assistive technology users rely on frame titles to describe the contents of frames.
Image elements have `[alt]` attributes
Provide short and descriptive alternative text where possible on informative elements.
`<input type="image">` elements have `[alt]` text
Input buttons with alternative text assist screen readers and other assistive technology users to understand its purpose.
Form elements have associated labels
Screen readers and other assistive technologies rely on labels to properly announce form controls.
Links have a discernible name
In order to improve the navigation for screen reader and other assistive technology users, use link text that is unique, focusable and discernible.
`<object>` elements have `[alt]` text
It is advised that alt text is used on '<object>' elements in order to provide meaning to screen reader and other assistive technology users, as these technologies are unable to translate non-text content.

Contrast

Background and foreground colors have a sufficient contrast ratio
Many (if not most) users find low-contrast text difficult or impossible to read.

Tables and lists

`<dl>`'s contain only properly-ordered `<dt>` and `<dd>` groups, `<script>`, `<template>` or `<div>` elements.
Screen readers and other assistive technologies may produce poor and inaccurate output when definition lists are not properly marked up.
Definition list items are wrapped in `<dl>` elements
In order for screen readers and other assistive technologies to properly announce definition list items ('<dt>' and '<dd>'), they must be wrapped in parent a '<dl>' element.
Lists contain only `<li>` elements and script supporting elements (`<script>` and `<template>`).
Use proper list structure to aid screen readers and other assistive technologies.
List items (`<li>`) are contained within `<ul>` or `<ol>` parent elements
In order for screen readers to announce list items, ensure that list items ('<li>') are contained within parent '<ul>' or '<ol>' tags.
Cells in a `<table>` element that use the `[headers]` attribute refer to table cells within the same table.
Screen readers and other assistive technologies have features to make navigating tables easier. Ensure that '<td>' cells using the headers attribute only refer to other cells in the same table, to improve screen reader user experience.
`<th>` elements and elements with `[role="columnheader"/"rowheader"]` have data cells they describe.
Screen readers and other assistive technologies have features to make navigating tables easier. Ensure that table headers refer to some set of cells, to improve screen reader user experience.

Internationalization and localization

`<html>` element has a `[lang]` attribute
It is advised to provide a lang attribute so that screen readers and other assistive technologies are guaranteed to announce the page's text correctly. When not provided, the user's default language setting will be used which may cause inaccuracies.
`<html>` element has a valid value for its `[lang]` attribute
Specify a valid BCP 47 language in order to help screen readers and other assistive technologies announce text properly.
`[lang]` attributes have a valid value
Specify a valid BCP 47 language on elements in order to help screen readers and other assistive technologies announce text properly.

Best practices

The document does not use `<meta http-equiv="refresh">`
Pages that refresh automatically cause a poor user experience as focus is directed back to the top of the page unexpectedly.
`[user-scalable="no"]` is not used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element and the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is not less than 5.
For users with low vision who rely on screen magnification, ensure that zooming is not disabled.

Audio and video

`<video>` elements contain a `<track>` element with `[kind="captions"]`
House.gov may provide assistance to deaf or hearing-impaired users with captions on videos.

Manual Checks

The page has a logical tab order
The visual layout should be logical in its tab order and users cannot focus elements that are offscreen.
Interactive controls are keyboard focusable
Ensure that custom interactive controls are keyboard focusable and that a focus indicator is displayed.
Interactive elements indicate their purpose and state
Ensure that interactive elements (such as links and buttons) are distinguishable from non-interactive elements and that they indicate their state.
The user's focus is directed to new content added to the page
When new content (such as a dialogue) is added to the page, the user's focus should be directed to it.
User focus is not accidentally trapped in a region
Avoid focus being accidentally trapped when a user tabs in and out of controls or regions on page.
Custom controls have associated labels
Ensure that custom interactive controls have associated labels, which are provided by aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes.
Custom controls have ARIA roles
Ensure that all custom interactive controls have appropriate ARIA roles.
Visual order on the page follows DOM order
Ensure that the DOM order matches with the page's visual order, in order to improve navigation for screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Offscreen content is hidden from assistive technology
Ensure that offscreen content is hidden through the use of "display:none" styling or the aria-hidden attribute.
HTML5 landmark elements are used to improve navigation
Elements such as <main> and <nav> are recommended as they are used by screen readers and other assistive technologies to improve keyboard navigation.
87

Best Practices

Indicates the recommended, best practices currently in place on the page and highlights the best practices that house.gov should incorporate. This includes practices such as protecting pages with HTTPS.

Audits

Avoids requesting the geolocation permission on page load
When requesting a user's location, provide context or consider tying the request to a user action to avoid confusion and mistrust from users.
Avoids requesting the notification permission on page load
When requesting permission to send notifications, provide context or consider tying the request to a user action to avoid confusion and mistrust from users.
Avoids front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure that the use of third-party scripts is minimal and that only trusted third-party scripts are used as some may contain known security vulnerabilities which may be exploited by attackers.
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
Significantly reduce the risk of cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) by ensuring you have a strong Content Security Policy (CSP).
Description Directive Severity
script-src directive is missing. This can allow the execution of unsafe scripts.
script-src
High
Missing object-src allows the injection of plugins that execute unsafe scripts. Consider setting object-src to 'none' if you can.
object-src
High

Audits

Allows users to paste into password fields
Ensure that password inputs may be pasted into to aid in the user's ability to use password managers and improve security.
Displays images with correct aspect ratio
Ensure that image display dimensions match their natural aspect ratio.
Serves images with appropriate resolution
For maximum image clarity, ensure images have natural dimensions and are proportional to the display size and pixel ratio.
Fonts with `font-display: optional` are preloaded
It is recommended that optional fonts are preloaded.

Audits

Page has the HTML doctype
Ensure a doctype is specified to prevent the browser from switching to quirks-mode.
Properly defines charset
It is advised to declare a character encoding, optionally via a <meta> tag in the first 1024 bytes of the HTML or in the Content-Type HTTP response header.

Audits

Avoids `unload` event listeners
The 'unload' event does not fire reliably, causing issues with browser optimizations such as the Back-Forward Cache. It is recommended that 'pagehide' or 'visibilitychange' events are used instead.
Avoids Application Cache
Application cache is deprecated and is no longer recommended.
Detected JavaScript libraries
Below is a list of all front-end JavaScript libraries that were detected on the page.
Name Version
jQuery
3.5.1
jQuery UI
1.12.1
Underscore
1.13.1
Drupal
Avoids deprecated APIs
Avoid deprecated APIs which will eventually be removed the browser.
No browser errors logged to the console
Below is a list of all errors logged to the console, which indicate unresolved problems on the site.
Page has valid source maps
Consider deploying source maps for added benefits such as the ability to debug while in production.
No issues in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools
There may be unresolved issues logged to Chrome Devtools.

Audits

Does not use HTTPS — 1 insecure request found
Ensure that all pages are protected with HTTPS (including those that do not handle sensitive data) as HTTPS prevents tampering and passive listening on communications between the app and its users. Additionally, HTTPS is a prerequisite for HTTP/2 and many new web platform APIs.
Insecure URL Request Resolution
http://house.gov/
Allowed
Links to cross-origin destinations are unsafe
Improve performance and prevent security vulnerabilities by adding rel="noopener" and rel="noreferrer" to external links.
82

SEO

Indicates how well the page is optimized for ranking in search engines and highlights Search Engine Optimization (SEO) opportunities for house.gov. This includes optimizations such as providing meta data.

Mobile Friendly

Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
It is advised to use a '<meta name="viewport">' tag for the optimization of house.gov on mobile screens.
Document uses legible font sizes
Font sizes of 12px or less are too small to most mobile users without user gestures and further action. Aim for more than 60% of page text to use font sizes greater than 12px.
Tap targets are sized appropriately
Interactive elements (such as buttons and links) should be appropriately spaced, sized and easy enough to select or tap with regard to their surrounding elements.

Content Best Practices

Document has a `<title>` element
Search engines, screen reader users and other assistive technology users rely on the title to provide an overview of the page and to help determine if the page is relevant to their search.
Links have descriptive text
Make use of descriptive link text to assist search engines in understanding the content.
Image elements have `[alt]` attributes
Provide short and descriptive alternative text where possible on informative elements.
Document has a valid `hreflang`
Search engines can be instructed to list specific versions of a page for a given language or region through the use of hreflang links.
Document has a valid `rel=canonical`
Search engines can be suggested which URL should be shown in search results through the use of canonical links.
Document avoids plugins
The content of plugins cannot be indexed by search engines and many devices either restrict or do not support them.

Crawling and Indexing

Page has successful HTTP status code
Avoid pages with unsuccessful HTTP status codes as they may not be indexed by search engines.
Page isn’t blocked from indexing
Pages that cannot be crawled by search engines cannot be indexed or included in their search results. Ensure that search engines have permission to crawl all pages that should be indexed.
robots.txt is valid
Malformed robots.txt files prevent crawlers from understanding how a site wants to be crawled or indexed, which can be devastating to SEO.

Content Best Practices

Document does not have a meta description
Meta descriptions may be used by search engines when displaying a link to the page and should concisely summarize the page's content.

Crawling and Indexing

Links are not crawlable
Ensure that the 'href' attribute of anchor elements links to the appropriate destination. This allows for more pages of the site to be discovered by search engines.

Manual Checks

Structured data is valid
Structured data can be validated through the use of the Structured Data Testing Tool and the Structured Data Linter.
36

Progressive Web App

Indicates how valid the aspects of a Progressive Web App (PWA) are for the page and highlights opportunities to enable/improve the PWA of house.gov. This includes details about web app manifests.

PWA Optimized

Redirects HTTP traffic to HTTPS
It is advised to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS, in order to enable secure web features for all users.
Content is sized correctly for the viewport
Ensure that the width of the app's content matches the width of the viewport, otherwise the app might not be optimized for mobile screens.
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
It is advised to use a '<meta name="viewport">' tag for the optimization of house.gov on mobile screens.

Installable

Web app manifest or service worker do not meet the installability requirements — 1 reason
User engagement may be increased by leveraging the browsers ability to proactively prompt users to add the app to their homescreen.
Failure reason
No manifest was fetched

PWA Optimized

Does not register a service worker that controls page and `start_url`
A service worker is used to provide Progressive Web Apps the use of features such as working offline, the ability for the app to be added to the homescreen as well as push notifications.
Is not configured for a custom splash screen
Themed splash screens ensure a high-quality user experience at launch for app users.
View Data
Does not set a theme color for the address bar.
A theme may be applied to the browser address bar, which ideally can be made to match the site.
View Data
Does not provide a valid `apple-touch-icon`
iOS users of Progressive Web Apps will benefit from an apple touch icon, which can be defined with 'apple-touch-icon', which must point to a non-transparent 192px (or 180px) square PNG.
Manifest doesn't have a maskable icon
Maskable icons are great to ensure that images fill the entire shape when installing the app on a device.

Manual Checks

Site works cross-browser
Ensure that the Progressive Web App works correctly across every major browser.
Page transitions don't feel like they block on the network
Users perceive apps with responsive, snappy transitions as higher peforming and ensures a great user experience, even on a slow network.
Each page has a URL
Ensure that all pages are deep linkable via URL. They should also be unique for the purpose of shareability on social media.
Avg. (All Categories) 74
Performance 74
Accessibility 100
Best Practices 80
SEO 82
Progressive Web App 33
0–49 (Fail) 50–89 (Average) 90–100 (Pass)
URL: https://www.house.gov/
Updated: 1st October, 2021

1.79 seconds
First Contentful Paint (FCP)
76%
15%
9%

0.01 seconds
First Input Delay (FID)
95%
4%
1%

Simulate loading on mobile
74

Performance

Indicates how well the page is performing and highlights opportunities where performance may be improved for house.gov. This includes details about optimizing page load times which can result in a better user experience.

Opportunities

Properly size images
Images can slow down the page's load time. House.gov should consider serving more appropriate-sized images.
Minify CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files can contribute to network payload sizes. House.gov should consider minifying CSS files.
Minify JavaScript
JavaScript (JS) files can contribute to network payload sizes and increase script parse times. House.gov should consider minifying JS files.
Efficiently encode images
Unoptimized images can consume more cellular data than what is necessary.
Enable text compression
Text-based resources should be served with compression, such as gzip, deflate or brotli.
Preconnect to required origins
Resource hints, such as 'preconnect' or 'dns-prefetch', may assist in establishing early connections to important third-party origins.
Initial server response time was short — Root document took 360 ms
It is advised to keep the server response time short for the main document, because all other requests depend on it.
URL Time Spent (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/
360.196
Preload key requests
Key requests can be preloaded by using '<link rel=preload>'. House.gov should consider using '<link rel=preload>' to prioritize fetching resources that are currently requested later in page load.
Use video formats for animated content
Large GIFs are inefficient for delivering animated content. It is recommended to use MPEG4/WebM videos for animations and PNG/WebP for static images instead of GIF.
Remove duplicate modules in JavaScript bundles
Ensure that no duplicate JavaScript modules from bundles exist to reduce bytes consumed by network activity.
Avoid serving legacy JavaScript to modern browsers — Potential savings of 0 KiB
Polyfills and transforms enable legacy browsers to use new JavaScript features. For bundled JavaScript it is recommended to adopt a modern script deployment strategy using module/nomodule feature detection. This will reduce the amount of code shipped to modern browsers.
URL Potential Savings (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
59
Preload Largest Contentful Paint image
It is recommended to preload images used by LCP elements, to improve LCP time.

Diagnostics

Avoids enormous network payloads — Total size was 754 KiB
Large network payloads can cost users money and are linked to long load times.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
88849
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
54150
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreen.gif
40203
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/HouseLive_1.jpg?itok=8xPqtNyW
39368
https://www.house.gov/
37396
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=AAR34I0W
36294
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=iMiJ1-BV
35965
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Biden-address-cover.jpg?itok=oTkOdV-N
30967
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreenIn.png
30021
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-history.jpg?itok=nwOINQZ8
29392
Avoid chaining critical requests — 3 chains found
Below is a list of Critical Request Chains, which shows which resources are loaded with a high priority. House.gov should consider reducing the length of chains, reducing the download size of resources, or deferring the download of unnecessary resources to improve page load.
User Timing marks and measures
Make use of the User Timing API to measure an app's real-world performance during key user experiences.
JavaScript execution time — 1.0 s
JavaScript (JS) execution time can be lowered by reducing the time required for parsing, compiling and executing JS. Delivering smaller JS payloads may help with this.
URL Total CPU Time (Ms) Script Evaluation (Ms) Script Parse (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
1167.044
623.724
22.708
https://www.house.gov/
852.396
15.832
7.112
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
217.464
171.752
29.604
Unattributable
208.6
12.452
0.824
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
116.908
102.264
4.28
All text remains visible during webfont loads
Make use of the font-display CSS feature, which will ensure text is user-visible while webfonts are loading.
Keep request counts low and transfer sizes small — 39 requests • 754 KiB
It is advised to add a budgets.json file in order to set budgets for the quantity and size of page resources.
Resource Type Requests Transfer Size (Bytes)
Total
39
772539
Image
28
535869
Script
3
163398
Document
1
37396
Stylesheet
2
34018
Other
5
1858
Media
0
0
Font
0
0
Third-party
5
76600
Minimize third-party usage — Third-party code blocked the main thread for 90 ms
It is advised to either limit, remove or delay the loading of redundant third-party code which may be significantly impacting load performance.
Third-Party Transfer Size (Bytes) Main-Thread Blocking Time (Ms)
54150
52.296
21038
39.868
712
0
700
0
Lazy load third-party resources with facades
Consider replacing third-party embeds with a facade until they are required (use lazy loading).
Largest Contentful Paint element — 1 element found
The element which was identified as the Largest Contentful Paint.
Element
Largest Contentful Paint image was not lazily loaded
Above-the-fold images that are lazily loaded render later in the page lifecycle, which can delay the largest contentful paint.
Element
Avoid large layout shifts — 4 elements found
Below is a list of all DOM elements that contribute to the CLS of the page.
Element CLS Contribution
0.06536865234375
0.03340045675257
0.010798643912485
0.0077222860536956
Avoids `document.write()`
Avoid or limit the use of external scripts that are dynamically injected via 'document.write()' as users on slow connections will be delayed by tens of seconds.
Avoid long main-thread tasks — 7 long tasks found
Below is a list of the longest tasks on the main thread, which is useful when identifying the worst input delay contributors.
URL Start Time (Ms) Duration (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
5070
541
https://www.house.gov/
2122
216
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
3590
104
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
4624
99
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
3502
88
https://www.house.gov/
2338
84
https://www.house.gov/
2050
72
Avoid non-composited animations
It is recommended to avoid non-composited animations which are often janky and increase CLS.
Image elements have explicit `width` and `height`
Reduce layout shifts and improve CLS by setting explicit width and height properties on image elements.
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
It is advised to use a '<meta name="viewport">' tag for the optimization of house.gov on mobile screens.

Budgets

Performance budget
It is advised to keep the quantity and size of all network requests under the targets set by the provided performance budget.
Timing budget
It is advised to set a timing budget to monitor the performance of your site.

Other

Network Requests
Below is a list of network requests that were made during page load.
URL Protocol Start Time (Ms) End Time (Ms) Transfer Size (Bytes) Resource Size (Bytes) Status Code MIME Type Resource Type
http://house.gov/
http/1.1
0
33.024000003934
153
0
302
text/plain
https://house.gov/
http/1.1
33.616999979131
160.92000005301
153
0
301
text/plain
https://www.house.gov/
http/1.1
161.59399994649
520.79900004901
37396
187620
200
text/html
Document
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/css/css_Cbc57tCXeQh0CtI3MQohvbvNIwrBy2Gl_AzemdxY0Bc.css
http/1.1
537.82500000671
657.01199998148
5539
23647
200
text/css
Stylesheet
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/css/css_0mNkQ_KWf0xQLj1M7xQk7kQhquF0WHOz1aYPHmuuXPs.css
http/1.1
538.08900003787
882.20300001558
28479
176912
200
text/css
Stylesheet
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/logo.svg
http/1.1
884.54899995122
979.39800005406
1582
1295
200
image/svg+xml
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Biden-address-cover.jpg?itok=oTkOdV-N
http/1.1
895.22499998566
1037.8679999849
30967
30448
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=AAR34I0W
http/1.1
895.42700001039
1516.4739999454
36294
35777
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/HouseLive_1.jpg?itok=8xPqtNyW
http/1.1
895.66200005356
1063.3179999422
39368
38849
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/dome-night2-480-360.jpg?itok=EQ6fNKPL
http/1.1
895.85500000976
1347.6749999681
16864
16347
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/map-home-states.gif
http/1.1
896.15299995057
1022.0050000353
10953
10310
200
image/gif
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=iMiJ1-BV
http/1.1
896.38299995568
1237.3689999804
35965
35439
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/congressional-app-challenge_slider%20800x600_0.jpg?itok=DjL4fb8p
http/1.1
896.6210000217
1030.33400001
16899
16378
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-art-2014-mn07.jpg?itok=CUybC3WN
http/1.1
896.90699998755
985.99299998023
28835
28309
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-cvc.jpg?itok=Yp4cM8pA
http/1.1
897.26400002837
1082.6210000087
25033
24504
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-kids.jpg?itok=rYmIBKF4
http/1.1
897.49200001825
986.47999996319
24128
23610
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-usbg.jpg?itok=JuAzvBBu
http/1.1
897.64900004957
1062.249999959
24405
23886
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-history.jpg?itok=nwOINQZ8
http/1.1
897.90199999698
1048.0730000418
29392
28875
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-wwp.jpg?itok=xy3jZ-Du
http/1.1
898.06599996518
1220.1910000294
17267
16740
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-longworth.jpg?itok=xZ7JfsMO
http/1.1
898.25800003018
1345.8050000481
11419
10893
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-baic.jpg?itok=MkDVuCfE
http/1.1
898.38100003544
1004.9590000417
20559
20040
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-haic.jpg?itok=7TMTfPk_
http/1.1
898.58200005256
1063.7199999765
23225
22707
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-women.jpg?itok=Z73FpmmT
http/1.1
898.80299998913
1062.8359999973
21100
20581
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
http/1.1
659.00400001556
1262.1400000062
88849
300508
200
application/javascript
Script
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TQX94K2
h2
898.94999994431
921.72999994364
54150
441180
200
application/javascript
Script
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/header_bg_mobile.jpg
http/1.1
916.83799994644
1083.7309999624
5365
4718
200
image/jpeg
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreen.gif
http/1.1
917.04400000162
1073.4200000297
40203
39409
200
image/gif
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/arrows-sprite.png
http/1.1
919.7250000434
1091.6720000096
18106
17303
200
image/png
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgSprite.png
http/1.1
920.90300004929
1225.1420000102
15665
15134
200
image/png
Image
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
h2
1097.4629999837
1103.3009999665
20399
49529
200
text/javascript
Script
https://www.google-analytics.com/j/collect?v=1&_v=j93&a=1831878656&t=pageview&_s=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.house.gov%2F&ul=en-us&de=UTF-8&dt=Homepage%20%7C%20house.gov&sd=24-bit&sr=360x640&vp=360x640&je=0&_u=YEBAAEABAAAAAC~&jid=2036219644&gjid=1119097005&cid=60230811.1633130475&tid=UA-23041056-1&_gid=1860002578.1633130475&_r=1&gtm=2wg9r0TQX94K2&z=1655560067
h2
1139.0100000426
1143.5020000208
639
2
200
text/plain
XHR
https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/j/collect?t=dc&aip=1&_r=3&v=1&_v=j93&tid=UA-23041056-1&cid=60230811.1633130475&jid=2036219644&gjid=1119097005&_gid=1860002578.1633130475&_u=YEBAAEAAAAAAAC~&z=740407087
h2
1146.6479999945
1150.1220000209
712
2
200
text/plain
XHR
https://www.google.com/ads/ga-audiences?t=sr&aip=1&_r=4&slf_rd=1&v=1&_v=j93&tid=UA-23041056-1&cid=60230811.1633130475&jid=2036219644&_u=YEBAAEAAAAAAAC~&z=1882830396
h2
1152.4729999946
1160.8629999682
700
42
200
image/gif
Image
https://in-session.house.gov/
http/1.1
1321.4300000109
1432.72599997
201
1
200
text/html
XHR
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgTabsFeatureActive.gif
http/1.1
1470.9349999903
1585.8589999843
863
80
200
image/gif
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/ui-icons_444444_256x240.png
http/1.1
1550.3289999906
1660.0630000466
4544
3756
200
image/png
Image
https://www.house.gov/core/assets/vendor/jquery.ui/themes/base/images/ui-icons_444444_256x240.png
http/1.1
1550.7409999846
1636.7470000405
4295
3756
200
image/png
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreenIn.png
http/1.1
1571.9299999764
1660.2930000518
30021
29501
200
image/png
Image
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgWatch.gif
http/1.1
1572.5279999897
1653.0989999883
1852
1334
200
image/gif
Image
Network Round Trip Times — 0 ms
High Network RTT (Round Trip Times) can have a large impact on performance. Providing servers geographically closer to the user could improve performance.
Server Backend Latencies — 0 ms
High server latencies indicate the server is overloaded or has a poor backend performance.
Tasks
Below is a list of the top-level main thread tasks that executed during page load.
Start Time (Ms) End Time (Ms)
557.554
8.729
916.871
8.924
925.864
17.891
943.777
107.879
1079.521
22.083
1105.233
26.014
1147.973
24.696
1313.978
270.631
1584.652
12.888
1603.648
9.28
1615.388
20.877
1694.806
19.771
Diagnostics
Below is a collection of useful page vitals.
View Data
Metrics
Below is a collection of metrics.
View Data
Script Treemap Data
Provide as required, for treemap app.

Metrics

First Contentful Paint — 2.6 s
The time taken for the first image or text on the page to be rendered.
Speed Index — 4.2 s
The time taken for the page contents to be visibly populated.
Largest Contentful Paint — 3.5 s
The timing of the largest text or image that is painted.
Time to Interactive — 5.2 s
The time taken for the page to become fully interactive.
Total Blocking Time — 320 ms
The total blocking time is the sum of all time periods between First Contentful Paint and Time to Interactive (when task length exceeded 50ms).
Cumulative Layout Shift — 0.117
Cumulative Layout Shift is the measurement of visible elements collective movement within the viewport.
View Data

Other

First Meaningful Paint — 2.6 s
The time taken for the primary content of the page to be rendered.

Opportunities

Eliminate render-blocking resources — Potential savings of 280 ms
Resources, such as JavaScript and style sheets, can block the first paint of the page. House.gov should consider delivering critical JavaScript/style sheets (JS/CSS) inline and deferring all non-critical JS/CSS.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Ms)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/css/css_Cbc57tCXeQh0CtI3MQohvbvNIwrBy2Gl_AzemdxY0Bc.css
5539
180
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/css/css_0mNkQ_KWf0xQLj1M7xQk7kQhquF0WHOz1aYPHmuuXPs.css
28479
330
Defer offscreen images — Potential savings of 16 KiB
Time to Interactive can be slowed down by resources on the page. House.gov should consider lazy-loading offscreen and hidden images.
URL Resource Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/dome-night2-480-360.jpg?itok=EQ6fNKPL
16347
16347
Reduce unused CSS — Potential savings of 24 KiB
Dead and/or unused rules in Style Sheets (CSS) can contribute to network payload sizes. House.gov should consider removing dead rules from style sheets and deferring the loading of CSS not used for above-the-fold content.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/css/css_0mNkQ_KWf0xQLj1M7xQk7kQhquF0WHOz1aYPHmuuXPs.css
28479
24835
Reduce unused JavaScript — Potential savings of 42 KiB
It is advised to remove unused JavaScript in order to reduce bytes consumed by network activity.
URL Transfer Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/js/js_bqjoX8HYSAmXjztLT00AjGCqrtkH54FP55AGvpf4nCU.js
88849
42560
Serve images in next-gen formats — Potential savings of 107 KiB
Consider JPEG 2000, JPEG XR or WebP image formats which provide better compression than PNG and JPEG.
URL Resource Size (Bytes) Potential Savings (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/arrows-sprite.png
17303
16092.3
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreenIn.png
29501
15469.95
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgSprite.png
15134
11120.25
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/HouseLive_1.jpg?itok=8xPqtNyW
38849
10295.8
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=AAR34I0W
35777
10260.9
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/Coronavirus%20copy.jpg?itok=iMiJ1-BV
35439
10051.5
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploads/images-slide/Biden-address-cover.jpg?itok=oTkOdV-N
30448
9747
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-history.jpg?itok=nwOINQZ8
28875
9336.25
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-art-2014-mn07.jpg?itok=CUybC3WN
28309
8442
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-cvc.jpg?itok=Yp4cM8pA
24504
8308.25

Diagnostics

Minimize main-thread work — 2.6 s
Main-thread work timing can be lowered by reducing the time required for parsing, compiling and executing JS. Delivering smaller JS payloads may help with this.
Category Time Spent (Ms)
Script Evaluation
926.024
Style & Layout
791.052
Other
395.544
Parse HTML & CSS
258.724
Rendering
171.684
Script Parsing & Compilation
64.528

Other

Max Potential First Input Delay — 540 ms
Users could experience a delay when interacting with the page.
First Contentful Paint (3G) — 4950 ms
The time taken for the first image or text on the page to be rendered while on a 3G network.

Opportunities

Avoid multiple page redirects — Potential savings of 1,110 ms
Redirects can cause additional delays before the page can begin loading. House.gov should avoid multiple or unnecessary page redirects.
URL Time Spent (Ms)
http://house.gov/
630
https://house.gov/
480
https://www.house.gov/
0

Diagnostics

Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy — 17 resources found
House.gov can speed up repeat visits by increasing the cache lifetime, which is essentially how long before a cached copy expires.
URL Cache TTL (Ms) Transfer Size (Bytes)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreen.gif
1000
40203
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/header_bg_mobile.jpg
1000
5365
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgSprite.png
6426000
15665
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
7200000
20399
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/houseLogoScreenIn.png
50920000
30021
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/bgWatch.gif
51000000
1852
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-baic.jpg?itok=MkDVuCfE
75414000
20559
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-haic.jpg?itok=7TMTfPk_
75419000
23225
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/congressional-app-challenge_slider%20800x600_0.jpg?itok=DjL4fb8p
75455000
16899
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_carousel/public/uploads/images-slide/home-life-history.jpg?itok=nwOINQZ8
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Avoid an excessive DOM size — 3,879 elements
A large DOM (Document Object Model) will increase memory usage, cause longer system calculations as well as costly layout reflows.
Statistic Element Value
Total DOM Elements
3879
Maximum DOM Depth
32
Maximum Child Elements
64
Does not use passive listeners to improve scrolling performance
Improve the page's scroll performance by marking touch and wheel event listeners as 'passive'.
Source
100

Accessibility

Indicates how accessible the page is and highlights opportunities where the page can be made more accessible to users of house.gov. This includes details about various page attributes that can be optimized.

Navigation

`[accesskey]` values are unique
Access keys assist users with focusing on different parts of the page. Each access key should be unique for proper navigation.
The page contains a heading, skip link, or landmark region
It is advised to provide ways to bypass repetitive content, allowing users to navigate the page efficiently.
`[id]` attributes on active, focusable elements are unique
Ensure all focusable elements have a unique id value to allow them to be visible to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order
Properly order all headers and do not skip heading levels to better the navigation and readability for users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
No element has a `[tabindex]` value greater than 0
Although technically valid, a tabindex value greater than 0 often creates frustrating experiences for users who rely on assistive technologies.

ARIA

`[aria-*]` attributes match their roles
Avoid mismatching 'aria-*' attributes and their 'role' value, as it invalidates the attribute.
`button`, `link`, and `menuitem` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
`[aria-hidden="true"]` is not present on the document `<body>`
If aria-hidden=true is set on the document body, assistive technologies, like a screen reader will work inconsistently.
`[aria-hidden="true"]` elements do not contain focusable descendents
Interactive elements within an aria-hidden=true element are unavailable to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
ARIA input fields have accessible names
Generic names are announced to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader, when an input field does not have an accessible name specified.
ARIA `meter` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
ARIA `progressbar` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
`[role]`s have all required `[aria-*]` attributes
Some ARIA roles have required 'aria-*' attributes, which provide essential information about state and functionality.
Elements with an ARIA `[role]` that require children to contain a specific `[role]` have all required children.
Some ARIA parent roles cannot perform their intended functions if specific child roles are not used.
`[role]`s are contained by their required parent element
Some ARIA child roles cannot perform their intended functions if specific parent roles are not used.
`[role]` values are valid
All ARIA roles require valid values to perform their intended functions.
ARIA toggle fields have accessible names
Generic names are announced to users of assistive technologies, like a screen reader, when a toggle field does not have an accessible name specified.
ARIA `tooltip` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
ARIA `treeitem` elements have accessible names
Without accessible names on elements, screen readers will default to announcing a generic name, which means your content will be less accessible to users who rely on screen readers.
`[aria-*]` attributes have valid values
ARIA attributes cannot be interpreted with invalid values when used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
`[aria-*]` attributes are valid and not misspelled
ARIA attributes cannot be interpreted with invalid names when used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
ARIA IDs are unique
Ensure all ARIA ID values are unique to prevent elements from being overlooked by assistive technologies, like a screen reader.

Names and labels

Buttons have an accessible name
Buttons become unusable as they are announced simply as "button" when the button does not have an accessible name, when used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Document has a `<title>` element
Search engines, screen reader users and other assistive technology users rely on the title to provide an overview of the page and to help determine if the page is relevant to their search.
No form fields have multiple labels
Having multiple labels for form fields can be confusing to assistive technologies, like a screen reader.
`<frame>` or `<iframe>` elements have a title
Screen reader users and other assistive technology users rely on frame titles to describe the contents of frames.
Image elements have `[alt]` attributes
Provide short and descriptive alternative text where possible on informative elements.
`<input type="image">` elements have `[alt]` text
Input buttons with alternative text assist screen readers and other assistive technology users to understand its purpose.
Form elements have associated labels
Screen readers and other assistive technologies rely on labels to properly announce form controls.
Links have a discernible name
In order to improve the navigation for screen reader and other assistive technology users, use link text that is unique, focusable and discernible.
`<object>` elements have `[alt]` text
It is advised that alt text is used on '<object>' elements in order to provide meaning to screen reader and other assistive technology users, as these technologies are unable to translate non-text content.

Contrast

Background and foreground colors have a sufficient contrast ratio
Many (if not most) users find low-contrast text difficult or impossible to read.

Tables and lists

`<dl>`'s contain only properly-ordered `<dt>` and `<dd>` groups, `<script>`, `<template>` or `<div>` elements.
Screen readers and other assistive technologies may produce poor and inaccurate output when definition lists are not properly marked up.
Definition list items are wrapped in `<dl>` elements
In order for screen readers and other assistive technologies to properly announce definition list items ('<dt>' and '<dd>'), they must be wrapped in parent a '<dl>' element.
Lists contain only `<li>` elements and script supporting elements (`<script>` and `<template>`).
Use proper list structure to aid screen readers and other assistive technologies.
List items (`<li>`) are contained within `<ul>` or `<ol>` parent elements
In order for screen readers to announce list items, ensure that list items ('<li>') are contained within parent '<ul>' or '<ol>' tags.
Cells in a `<table>` element that use the `[headers]` attribute refer to table cells within the same table.
Screen readers and other assistive technologies have features to make navigating tables easier. Ensure that '<td>' cells using the headers attribute only refer to other cells in the same table, to improve screen reader user experience.
`<th>` elements and elements with `[role="columnheader"/"rowheader"]` have data cells they describe.
Screen readers and other assistive technologies have features to make navigating tables easier. Ensure that table headers refer to some set of cells, to improve screen reader user experience.

Internationalization and localization

`<html>` element has a `[lang]` attribute
It is advised to provide a lang attribute so that screen readers and other assistive technologies are guaranteed to announce the page's text correctly. When not provided, the user's default language setting will be used which may cause inaccuracies.
`<html>` element has a valid value for its `[lang]` attribute
Specify a valid BCP 47 language in order to help screen readers and other assistive technologies announce text properly.
`[lang]` attributes have a valid value
Specify a valid BCP 47 language on elements in order to help screen readers and other assistive technologies announce text properly.

Best practices

The document does not use `<meta http-equiv="refresh">`
Pages that refresh automatically cause a poor user experience as focus is directed back to the top of the page unexpectedly.
`[user-scalable="no"]` is not used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element and the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is not less than 5.
For users with low vision who rely on screen magnification, ensure that zooming is not disabled.

Audio and video

`<video>` elements contain a `<track>` element with `[kind="captions"]`
House.gov may provide assistance to deaf or hearing-impaired users with captions on videos.

Manual Checks

The page has a logical tab order
The visual layout should be logical in its tab order and users cannot focus elements that are offscreen.
Interactive controls are keyboard focusable
Ensure that custom interactive controls are keyboard focusable and that a focus indicator is displayed.
Interactive elements indicate their purpose and state
Ensure that interactive elements (such as links and buttons) are distinguishable from non-interactive elements and that they indicate their state.
The user's focus is directed to new content added to the page
When new content (such as a dialogue) is added to the page, the user's focus should be directed to it.
User focus is not accidentally trapped in a region
Avoid focus being accidentally trapped when a user tabs in and out of controls or regions on page.
Custom controls have associated labels
Ensure that custom interactive controls have associated labels, which are provided by aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes.
Custom controls have ARIA roles
Ensure that all custom interactive controls have appropriate ARIA roles.
Visual order on the page follows DOM order
Ensure that the DOM order matches with the page's visual order, in order to improve navigation for screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Offscreen content is hidden from assistive technology
Ensure that offscreen content is hidden through the use of "display:none" styling or the aria-hidden attribute.
HTML5 landmark elements are used to improve navigation
Elements such as <main> and <nav> are recommended as they are used by screen readers and other assistive technologies to improve keyboard navigation.
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Best Practices

Indicates the recommended, best practices currently in place on the page and highlights the best practices that house.gov should incorporate. This includes practices such as protecting pages with HTTPS.

Audits

Avoids requesting the geolocation permission on page load
When requesting a user's location, provide context or consider tying the request to a user action to avoid confusion and mistrust from users.
Avoids requesting the notification permission on page load
When requesting permission to send notifications, provide context or consider tying the request to a user action to avoid confusion and mistrust from users.
Avoids front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure that the use of third-party scripts is minimal and that only trusted third-party scripts are used as some may contain known security vulnerabilities which may be exploited by attackers.
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
Significantly reduce the risk of cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) by ensuring you have a strong Content Security Policy (CSP).
Description Directive Severity
script-src directive is missing. This can allow the execution of unsafe scripts.
script-src
High
Missing object-src allows the injection of plugins that execute unsafe scripts. Consider setting object-src to 'none' if you can.
object-src
High

Audits

Allows users to paste into password fields
Ensure that password inputs may be pasted into to aid in the user's ability to use password managers and improve security.
Serves images with appropriate resolution
For maximum image clarity, ensure images have natural dimensions and are proportional to the display size and pixel ratio.
Fonts with `font-display: optional` are preloaded
It is recommended that optional fonts are preloaded.

Audits

Page has the HTML doctype
Ensure a doctype is specified to prevent the browser from switching to quirks-mode.
Properly defines charset
It is advised to declare a character encoding, optionally via a <meta> tag in the first 1024 bytes of the HTML or in the Content-Type HTTP response header.

Audits

Avoids `unload` event listeners
The 'unload' event does not fire reliably, causing issues with browser optimizations such as the Back-Forward Cache. It is recommended that 'pagehide' or 'visibilitychange' events are used instead.
Avoids Application Cache
Application cache is deprecated and is no longer recommended.
Detected JavaScript libraries
Below is a list of all front-end JavaScript libraries that were detected on the page.
Name Version
jQuery
3.5.1
jQuery UI
1.12.1
Underscore
1.13.1
Drupal
Avoids deprecated APIs
Avoid deprecated APIs which will eventually be removed the browser.
No browser errors logged to the console
Below is a list of all errors logged to the console, which indicate unresolved problems on the site.
Page has valid source maps
Consider deploying source maps for added benefits such as the ability to debug while in production.
No issues in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools
There may be unresolved issues logged to Chrome Devtools.

Audits

Does not use HTTPS — 1 insecure request found
Ensure that all pages are protected with HTTPS (including those that do not handle sensitive data) as HTTPS prevents tampering and passive listening on communications between the app and its users. Additionally, HTTPS is a prerequisite for HTTP/2 and many new web platform APIs.
Insecure URL Request Resolution
http://house.gov/
Allowed
Links to cross-origin destinations are unsafe
Improve performance and prevent security vulnerabilities by adding rel="noopener" and rel="noreferrer" to external links.

Audits

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
Ensure that image display dimensions match their natural aspect ratio.
URL Aspect Ratio (Displayed) Aspect Ratio (Actual)
https://www.house.gov/sites/default/themes/housegov/images/map-home-states.gif
280 x 235 (1.19)
340 x 235 (1.45)
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SEO

Indicates how well the page is optimized for ranking in search engines and highlights Search Engine Optimization (SEO) opportunities for house.gov. This includes optimizations such as providing meta data.

Mobile Friendly

Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
It is advised to use a '<meta name="viewport">' tag for the optimization of house.gov on mobile screens.
Document uses legible font sizes — 100% legible text
Font sizes of 12px or less are too small to most mobile users without user gestures and further action. Aim for more than 60% of page text to use font sizes greater than 12px.
Source Selector % of Page Text Font Size
100.00%
≥ 12px

Content Best Practices

Document has a `<title>` element
Search engines, screen reader users and other assistive technology users rely on the title to provide an overview of the page and to help determine if the page is relevant to their search.
Links have descriptive text
Make use of descriptive link text to assist search engines in understanding the content.
Image elements have `[alt]` attributes
Provide short and descriptive alternative text where possible on informative elements.
Document has a valid `hreflang`
Search engines can be instructed to list specific versions of a page for a given language or region through the use of hreflang links.
Document has a valid `rel=canonical`
Search engines can be suggested which URL should be shown in search results through the use of canonical links.
Document avoids plugins
The content of plugins cannot be indexed by search engines and many devices either restrict or do not support them.

Crawling and Indexing

Page has successful HTTP status code
Avoid pages with unsuccessful HTTP status codes as they may not be indexed by search engines.
Page isn’t blocked from indexing
Pages that cannot be crawled by search engines cannot be indexed or included in their search results. Ensure that search engines have permission to crawl all pages that should be indexed.
robots.txt is valid
Malformed robots.txt files prevent crawlers from understanding how a site wants to be crawled or indexed, which can be devastating to SEO.

Mobile Friendly

Tap targets are not sized appropriately — 70% appropriately sized tap targets
Interactive elements (such as buttons and links) should be appropriately spaced, sized and easy enough to select or tap with regard to their surrounding elements.
Tap Target Size Overlapping Target
47x14
47x14
65x14
105x14
82x14
51x14
70x14

Content Best Practices

Document does not have a meta description
Meta descriptions may be used by search engines when displaying a link to the page and should concisely summarize the page's content.

Crawling and Indexing

Links are not crawlable
Ensure that the 'href' attribute of anchor elements links to the appropriate destination. This allows for more pages of the site to be discovered by search engines.

Manual Checks

Structured data is valid
Structured data can be validated through the use of the Structured Data Testing Tool and the Structured Data Linter.
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Progressive Web App

Indicates how valid the aspects of a Progressive Web App (PWA) are for the page and highlights opportunities to enable/improve the PWA of house.gov. This includes details about web app manifests.

PWA Optimized

Redirects HTTP traffic to HTTPS
It is advised to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS, in order to enable secure web features for all users.
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
It is advised to use a '<meta name="viewport">' tag for the optimization of house.gov on mobile screens.

Installable

Web app manifest or service worker do not meet the installability requirements — 1 reason
User engagement may be increased by leveraging the browsers ability to proactively prompt users to add the app to their homescreen.
Failure reason
No manifest was fetched

PWA Optimized

Does not register a service worker that controls page and `start_url`
A service worker is used to provide Progressive Web Apps the use of features such as working offline, the ability for the app to be added to the homescreen as well as push notifications.
Is not configured for a custom splash screen
Themed splash screens ensure a high-quality user experience at launch for app users.
View Data
Does not set a theme color for the address bar.
A theme may be applied to the browser address bar, which ideally can be made to match the site.
View Data
Content is not sized correctly for the viewport
Ensure that the width of the app's content matches the width of the viewport, otherwise the app might not be optimized for mobile screens.
Does not provide a valid `apple-touch-icon`
iOS users of Progressive Web Apps will benefit from an apple touch icon, which can be defined with 'apple-touch-icon', which must point to a non-transparent 192px (or 180px) square PNG.
Manifest doesn't have a maskable icon
Maskable icons are great to ensure that images fill the entire shape when installing the app on a device.

Manual Checks

Site works cross-browser
Ensure that the Progressive Web App works correctly across every major browser.
Page transitions don't feel like they block on the network
Users perceive apps with responsive, snappy transitions as higher peforming and ensures a great user experience, even on a slow network.
Each page has a URL
Ensure that all pages are deep linkable via URL. They should also be unique for the purpose of shareability on social media.
Hosting

Server Location

Server IP Address: 35.168.94.129
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Web Hosting Provider

Name IP Address
Amazon Technologies Inc.
Registration

Domain Registrant

Private Registration: No
Name:
Organization: United States House of Representatives
Country:
City:
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Email:
Phone:
Note: Registration information is derived from various sources and may be inaccurate.

Domain Registrar

Security

Visitor Safety

Mature Content: Not Likely
McAfee WebAdvisor Rating: Safe
WOT Rating:
WOT Trustworthiness: 94/100
WOT Child Safety: 95/100
Note: Safety information is not guaranteed.

SSL/TLS Certificate

Issued To: *.house.gov
Issued By: DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
Valid From: 8th June, 2021
Valid To: 13th June, 2022
Subject: CN = *.house.gov
O = United States House of Representatives
L = Washington
S = US
Hash: 664e45ca
Issuer: CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
O = DigiCert Inc
S = US
Version: 2
Serial Number: 10574426730053740012213196919679007377
Serial Number (Hex): 07F48F7D7ABAF64B1FE8A795CCDCBA91
Valid From: 8th June, 2024
Valid To: 13th June, 2024
Signature Algorithm (Short Name): RSA-SHA256
Signature Algorithm (Long Name): sha256WithRSAEncryption
Authority Key Identifier: keyid:0F:80:61:1C:82:31:61:D5:2F:28:E7:8D:46:38:B4:2C:E1:C6:D9:E2
Extended Key Usage: TLS Web Server Authentication, TLS Web Client Authentication
CRL Distribution Points:
Full Name:
URI:http://crl3.digicert.com/ssca-sha2-g7.crl

Full Name:
URI:http://crl4.digicert.com/ssca-sha2-g7.crl

Certificate Policies: Policy: 2.23.140.1.2.2
CPS: http://www.digicert.com/CPS

Authority Information Access: OCSP - URI:http://ocsp.digicert.com
CA Issuers - URI:http://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.crt

SCT List: Signed Certificate Timestamp:
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Timestamp : Jun 8 17:25:16.036 2021 GMT
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Basic Constraints: CA:FALSE
Subject Alternative Name: DNS:house.gov
DNS:*.house.gov
Technical

DNS Lookup

NS Records

Host Nameserver Class TTL
house.gov. oxygen.house.gov. IN 21600
house.gov. pdns109.ultradns.org. IN 21600
house.gov. pdns109.ultradns.biz. IN 21600
house.gov. pdns109.ultradns.net. IN 21600
house.gov. pdns109.ultradns.com. IN 21600
house.gov. oxygen2.house.gov. IN 21600

HTTP Response Headers

HTTP-Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Cache-Control: public, private, max-age=662
Expires: 1st October, 2021
Date: 1st October, 2021
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X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-XSS-Protection: 1
X-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: UNCACHEABLE
Link: <https://www.house.gov/>; rel="canonical", <https://www.house.gov/>; rel="shortlink"
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Content-Language: en
Last-Modified: 1st October, 2021
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Whois Lookup

Created:
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Expires:
Status:
Nameservers: oxygen.house.gov
oxygen2.house.gov
pdns109.ultradns.biz
pdns109.ultradns.com
pdns109.ultradns.net
pdns109.ultradns.org
Full Whois: % DOTGOV WHOIS Server ready
Domain Name: HOUSE.GOV
Status: ACTIVE

>>> Last update of whois database: 2021-10-01T23:02:17Z <<<

Please be advised that this whois server only contains information pertaining
to the .GOV domain. For information for other domains please use the whois
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Nameservers

Name IP Address
oxygen.house.gov 216.218.141.197
oxygen2.house.gov 184.105.22.101
pdns109.ultradns.biz 156.154.66.109
pdns109.ultradns.com 156.154.64.109
pdns109.ultradns.net 156.154.65.109
pdns109.ultradns.org 156.154.67.109
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