Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

academicindex.net

RefSeek - Academic Search Engine

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

Visit academicindex.net now to see the best up-to-date Academic Index content for Malaysia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about academicindex.net

Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Academicindex.net page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 1.7 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

academicindex.net performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

academicindex.net

232 ms

amazon.js

464 ms

addthis_widget.js

13 ms

3.js

205 ms

clear.gif

377 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Academicindex.net, 14% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (695 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 599.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

449.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Academicindex.net main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 686.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 166.3 kB
  • After minification 165.5 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 124.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 195.5 kB
  • After minification 186.2 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. Academic Index images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 465.9 kB

  • Original 686.8 kB
  • After minification 686.8 kB
  • After compression 221.0 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 465.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Academic Index. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

academicindex.net accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

academicindex.net 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

academicindex.net SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Academicindex.net 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 Academicindex.net main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Academic Index. 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: