Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

sciarc.edu

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciarc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sciarc.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,480 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciarc.edu

169 ms

sciarc.edu

553 ms

app.css

232 ms

duet-hernan-ray.jpg

357 ms

E-v1.js

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Sciarc.edu, 25% (6 requests) were made to and 13% (3 requests) were made to Storage.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (553 ms) belongs to the original domain Sciarc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

560.8 kB

After Optimization

540.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Sciarc.edu main page is 560.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 333.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 1.7 kB, which is 11% 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 11.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 333.7 kB
  • After minification 325.0 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. SCI Arc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 211.1 kB
  • After minification 211.1 kB
  • After compression 211.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SCI Arc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sciarc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sciarc.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sciarc.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sciarc.edu 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 Sciarc.edu 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 SCI Arc. 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: