Why Is Nij.gov Slow? Here Are The Reasons

Nij.gov is a popular website in the category. According to the latest CWVIQ speed report, Nij.gov took 0.22 seconds to load the page. Anything over 5 seconds means that the website is too slow to load.

A slow load time could be due to a lot of things – poor network connectivity at your end, an unreliable hosting server, or a poorly optimized webpage.

First off, let’s look at a breakup of the loading time.

DNS Lookup Time (Time taken to lookup the IP address of the server)	101.28 ms
TCP Connection (Time taken to establish a connection between your server and the server where Nij.gov is hosted)	58.7 ms
SSL Handshake (Time taken to verify server credentials by comparing public key with its digital signature)	0.04 ms
Server Processing (Time it takes for the website’s server to process your request)	59.16 ms
Content Transfer (Time it takes for the requested data to be transmitted to your server)	0.04 ms
TOTAL TIME	0.22 seconds

A high value for DNS lookup or TCP connection could be because of local settings, or internet connection.While a high server processing time or content transfer time could indicate issues with the website or its server.

We also studied the Nij.gov Lighthouse report to look at the site’s performance. Here is what we found.

Speed Index – Time for the page content to be visibly populated	3.9 s
Server response time	143 ms
First Meaningful Paint – Time for the viewable content to be rendered to the user	0.8 s

How To Make Nij.gov faster

Here are the top 7 ways to make Nij.gov faster.

1. Time to Interactive – 6.77 seconds

Time to Interactive is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive.

2. Speed Index – 3.91 seconds

Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated.

3. Largest Contentful Paint – 1.93 seconds

Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted.

4. First Meaningful Paint – 0.79 seconds

First Meaningful Paint measures when the primary content of a page is visible.

5. First Contentful Paint – 0.64 seconds

First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted.

6. Total Blocking Time – 0.54 seconds

Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds.

7. Max Potential First Input Delay – 0.26 seconds

The maximum potential First Input Delay that your users could experience is the duration of the longest task.

In addition to these reasons, here are other ways to make Nij.gov faster.

Cumulative Layout Shift – 0.164

Cumulative Layout Shift measures the movement of visible elements within the viewport.