Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

geni.org

Global Energy Network Institute - GENI - Global Electricity Grid - Linking Renewable Energy Resources Around the World

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

494 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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Global Energy Network Institute focuses on linking renewable energy resources around the world using cooperative international electricity transmission grids. GENI renewable energy research helps link...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geni.org page load time and found that the first response time was 494 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geni.org performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geni.org

494 ms

style2.css

279 ms

global.css

151 ms

disclaim-element.js

152 ms

graph-calc.js

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Geni.org, 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Geni.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

757.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Geni.org main page is 2.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.6 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 43.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 682.0 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, GENI needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 61% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 122.8 kB
  • After minification 121.6 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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 62.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Geni.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (30%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GENI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

geni.org accessibility score

55

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

geni.org best practices score

42

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

geni.org SEO score

46

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

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Geni.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 Geni.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GENI. 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: