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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

askalibrarian.org

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

337 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Askalibrarian.org page load time and found that the first response time was 337 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

askalibrarian.org performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

askalibrarian.org

337 ms

css

83 ms

bootstrap.css

56 ms

aalstyle020616.css

190 ms

load_chat.php

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Askalibrarian.org, 10% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (403 ms) belongs to the original domain Askalibrarian.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.9 kB (71%)

Content Size

178.9 kB

After Optimization

51.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Askalibrarian.org main page is 178.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 123.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 13.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 49% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 27.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 9.1 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 106.1 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 17.5 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Askalibrarian.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (44%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ask A Librarian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

askalibrarian.org

askalibrarian.org

337 ms

css

css

83 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

56 ms

aalstyle020616.css

aalstyle020616.css

190 ms

load_chat.php

load_chat.php

194 ms

jquery-bootstrap.js.php

jquery-bootstrap.js.php

403 ms

AAL_logo960X168.svgz

AAL_logo960X168.svgz

193 ms

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

32 ms

dc.js

dc.js

57 ms

widget_status

widget_status

39 ms

Accessibility Review

askalibrarian.org accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

askalibrarian.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

askalibrarian.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Askalibrarian.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Askalibrarian.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ask A Librarian. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: