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SiteSpeedLab can't measure the latency of the va.gov. While performing tests we do not get responses from the remote server 152.131.96.221.
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester
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WebSite Speed Profile

Site Speed Success Formula = good website latency + fast DNS lookup + high page load speed.
Site Speed Laboratory offers analysis of DNS Lookup speed & latency tests (ping) & Page Load speed for every website. Our analysis is based on data for May 24 2011. Since the first of July 2010 we carried out 21 tests from locations
for the main page of this website, the last of which were made about 3610 hours ago

Tests Summary

DNS Summary

Page Speed Summary

Site Speed Laboratory Summary for this website

Location Ping Ping,
change		 DNS Lookup DNS Resolve,
change		 Page Speed Page Speed,
change
 Usa
88.60% of traffic		 NY, New York — — 33 ms 84 % 261.16 Kb/s 10%
Florida, Tampa — — 83 ms 14 %
 Germany
 Frankfurt — — 238 ms 10 %
 Canada
1.10% of traffic		 Montreal — — 68 ms —
 United Kingdom
0.60% of traffic		 Gloucester — — 270 ms —

Summary Widget

SiteSpeedLab Overall Website Rating for this website
Based on our speed test results table and considering features of the current webserver location (United states), we concluded
overall This website speed rank is 91. That means 91% of the sites from the are slower for visitors than this website.

It is important to understand that you can't evaluate website speed without considering website audience location. You should evaluate the speed of the site considering location of your primary audience (visitors), and not just from abstract tests from various points of the planet. There is a chance that your website is quite slow for visitors from German but pretty quick for Australian users at the same time. Based on a primary audience location data Site Speed Laboratory maintains objective rating. Test servers located in the Usa and Canada are more useful and important to Va.gov because the shares of each country are 88.60 and 1.10 percent respectively.

You should not overestimate the importance of the website speed factor. Google has more than 200 ranking factors and website speed is just one of them.

DNS Lookup Speed

Browser should lookup domain name and get IP address of the server (152.131.96.221) before downloading the page. We test DNS resolve for this domain from 5 locations. That's how we've got the average time of receiving IP: 0.14s (which is better than 43% of all sites). For more detailed stats look at DNS tests graph and DNS resolve page for United states, location (Average value on the widget is an average DNS resolve time for websites hosted at the same location).

DNS History Graph

Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss

Compare DNS Speed

Compare DNS Lookup


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Our Servers
Usa
NY, New York
Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester

The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.

Location Last check 7 day change 1 month change 3 month change 6 month change
 Usa
88.60% of traffic		 NY, New York 33 ms — — — 44%
79/55 ms
Florida, Tampa 83 ms — — — 10%
90/100 ms
 Germany
 Frankfurt 238 ms — — — 2%
247/251 ms
 Canada
1.10% of traffic		 Montreal 68 ms — — — 4%
73/76 ms
 United Kingdom
0.60% of traffic		 Gloucester 270 ms — — — 26%
288/229 ms

Fragment of DNS Speed rating table for this website

The table is constructed according to the data from the US datacenters

# Domain Compare DNS Resolve Speed Provider
1. Mediafilter.org 1 ms Xo Communications
2. Traveling.com 7 ms Zone_Four
3. Adtech.de 18 ms Aol Transit Data Network
... ... ... ... ...
2782. Jjbest.com 137 ms Zone_Capital_Pty_Ltd
2783. Msn.it 138 ms Microsoft Corp
2784. Va.gov 138 ms Department Of Veterans Affairs
2785. Collectionsetc.com 138 ms Qwest Communications
2786. 2dayblog.com 138 ms Zhang_Shiyu
... ... ... ... ...
4963. Prurealty.com 5108 ms Xo Communications

Page Speed Test

Content-Type's Weights
 
 
Content-Type's Weights by Hosts
 
 
Downloading page itself is the final stage of the testing. Actually, this is the last stage, after which page is displayed completely for user. The download speed depends on many factors. Main factors are the following: the width of the bandwidth up to the domain, the number of simultaneous download threads, speed of the server, a distance between user and domain web server. Recent measurements have shown the speed of page download for this domain is 261.164Kb/s (which is better than 91% of all sites in this region). For more detailed stats check out report for hosted websites.

 
 
 

Page Speed

Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with DNS lookup speed and website latency). Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css), optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.

While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6. Test results of the page loading listed in this table:

Pagespeed Flash Table

Ways to improve website performance

Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external factors.

Enable GZIP Compression

This is a good practice to give the user content in compressed form. We've detected 182.38 Kb of content that could be compressed. By compressing content you can achieve the size of ~ 45.59 Kb (saving 136.78 Kb). This would accelerate the page loading speed and would positively impact the bandwidth savings in Department Of Veterans Affairs.
http://va.gov/va_files/2009/scripts/global.js. File size 0.46 Kb and you can save up to 0.35 Kb
http://va.gov/index_xbox_slideshow.js. File size 0.31 Kb and you can save up to 0.23 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/fsrscripts/triggerParams.js. File size 0.02 Kb and you can save up to 0.02 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/fsrscripts/stdLauncher.js. File size 0.17 Kb and you can save up to 0.13 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/2009/scripts/vaSearch.js. File size 1 Kb and you can save up to 0.75 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/2009/scripts/jquery-min-modified.js. File size 57.15 Kb and you can save up to 42.86 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/2009/scripts/jquery-bgiframe.js. File size 1.46 Kb and you can save up to 1.1 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/2009/scripts/dropdown.js. File size 13.37 Kb and you can save up to 10.03 Kb
http://va.gov/javascript/jquery-simplemodal-1-3-5-min.js. File size 8.46 Kb and you can save up to 6.35 Kb
http://va.gov/xbox.js. File size 0.49 Kb and you can save up to 0.37 Kb
http://va.gov/rotating-pics-mm-xbox.js. File size 4.82 Kb and you can save up to 3.62 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/foresee/foresee-trigger.js. File size 66.15 Kb and you can save up to 49.62 Kb
http://va.gov/ext_redirect.asp?xbox=1. File size 1.54 Kb and you can save up to 1.15 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/foresee/foresee-surveydef.js. File size 5.5 Kb and you can save up to 4.12 Kb
http://va.gov/va_files/foresee/foresee-dhtml-popup.js. File size 21.48 Kb and you can save up to 16.11 Kb

Keep Components under 25K

Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc. are less than 25K.
http://va.gov/images/news/VA_Holiday.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 321.76 Kb.
http://va.gov/images/news/VAII.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 34.69 Kb.
http://va.gov/images/news/enrollment.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 59.47 Kb.
http://va.gov/va_files/2009/scripts/jquery-min-modified.js  Content-Encoding: application/x-javascript. File size 57.15 Kb.
http://va.gov/images/news/philly.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 141.02 Kb.
http://va.gov/va_files/foresee/foresee-trigger.js  Content-Encoding: application/x-javascript. File size 66.15 Kb.
http://va.gov/images/news/commence.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 132.88 Kb.

Specify image dimensions

The browser needs to know the actual dimensions of image (width and height) to quickly render webpage.

We have detected that the 5 images has no width and height.

If you do not specify the width and/or height, then in order to correctly display the image browser needs to download it and only then put on the screen. Otherwise, there is a chance browser will display elements under the picture inappropriately as well as the possible presence of "jumping" effect of the page content (until the page load is finished).

We provide below example of how to define the image images/homepage/youtube_32.png dimensions:
500.   <img alt="YouTube" src="images/homepage/youtube_32.png" width="IMAGE_WIDTH_HERE" height="IMAGE_HEIGHT_HERE">

Using H1 tag

Show main content of the page clearly. One of the most important internal website ranking factors is the H1 tag. It's a title of the document and the most powerful keyword, actually. Our robot did not find the h1 tag on the page.

Use the TITLE for A tag

As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing. For example, you have the link on your website:
69.   <a href="#content-wrapper">skip to page content</a>
We suggest you to remake it in this way:
69.   <a href="#content-wrapper" title="rehab">skip to page content</a>
Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "rehab" that describes the link #content-wrapper.

Number of links on the page

Try to avoid a large number of links on the page. Our robot have found 157 links on this page. Google recommends to keep the number of links fewer than 100. More information about this topic you can find in Google Webmaster Guidelines and in the post "How many links per page?" by Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team)


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