Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

gbif.org

GBIF

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

418 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gbif.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gbif.org performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gbif.org

1254 ms

www.gbif.org

2335 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

190 ms

css_tGTNtRAsNJmcVz4r7F6YCijbrQGDbBmziHSrRd1Stqc.css

195 ms

css_xzic57KdepQa86psLfqxiSDZSjZqFrBpUV1whsbfucc.css

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Gbif.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Api.gbif.org and 4% (2 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Gbif.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 703.0 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

550.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Gbif.org main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 638.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 34.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 359.9 kB
  • After minification 318.9 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. Obviously, GBIF needs image optimization as it can save up to 41.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 455.5 kB

  • Original 638.5 kB
  • After minification 583.5 kB
  • After compression 182.9 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 455.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 172.2 kB

  • Original 210.1 kB
  • After minification 209.0 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Gbif.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (41%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GBIF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gbif.org accessibility score

77

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

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gbif.org best practices score

85

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gbif.org SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gbif.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gbif.org 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 GBIF. 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: