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Home | Library of Congress
Loc.gov Meta Description
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 162 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.
Loc.gov Test Results
loc.gov Mobile Usability: 98/100
Quick overview:
Size tap targets appropriately
Some of the links/buttons on your webpage may be too small for a user to easily tap on a touchscreen. Consider making these tap targets larger to provide a better user experience.
The following tap targets are close to other nearby tap targets and may need additional spacing around them.
The tap target
<label for="search" class="test screen-readers-only">Search</label>
is close to 1 other tap targets .
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loc.gov Mobile Speed: 45/100
Quick overview:
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Your page has 1 blocking script resources and 1 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
https://www.loc.gov/static/js/lib/jquery-1.8.2.min.js
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https://www.loc.gov/static/stylesheets/base.css?47615.43036
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Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources:
https://cdn.loc.gov/loader/css/style.css (24 hours)
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Minifying https://www.loc.gov/static/javascript/base.js?47615.43036 could save 37.8KiB (17% reduction) after compression.
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Minify CSS for the following resources to reduce their size by 10KiB (16% reduction).
Minifying https://www.loc.gov/static/stylesheets/base.css?47615.43036 could save 10KiB (16% reduction) after compression.
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Minify HTML for the following resources to reduce their size by 4.5KiB (28% reduction).
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