Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

embase.com

Embase

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

415 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

440 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Embase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 415 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

embase.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

embase

415 ms

269842467.js

316 ms

styles.css

115 ms

ECM-2721_bootstrap.css

136 ms

ECM-2721_style10_new.css

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Embase.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to 269842467.log.optimizely.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) relates to the external source Store.elsevier.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Embase.com main page is 2.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 996.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 110.7 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 87.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 996.1 kB
  • After minification 943.2 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Embase images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 647.8 kB

  • Original 972.9 kB
  • After minification 963.0 kB
  • After compression 325.1 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 647.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 323.8 kB

  • Original 420.1 kB
  • After minification 356.8 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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. Embase.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (66%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Embase. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

embase.com accessibility score

94

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

embase.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

embase.com SEO score

83

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Embase.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Embase.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Embase. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: