Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

adamsmithsociety.net

International Adam Smith Society: About the Society

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

847 ms

Page Rendered

93 ms

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About Website

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International Adam Smith Society founded in 1995 to encourage interdisciplinary scholarly interest in Adam Smith's Writings and to provide a forum for the sharing of research and scholarship relating ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Adamsmithsociety.net page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 940 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

adamsmithsociety.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

adamsmithsociety.net

238 ms

www.adamsmithsociety.net

312 ms

style.css

62 ms

highlight.js

119 ms

site-bg.gif

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Adamsmithsociety.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (312 ms) belongs to the original domain Adamsmithsociety.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

32.9 kB

After Optimization

27.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Adamsmithsociety.net main page is 32.9 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 7.4 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 4.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 23 B

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 23.9 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. Adam Smith Society images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 372 B

  • Original 672 B
  • After minification 629 B
  • After compression 300 B

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 372 B or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 99 B

  • Original 894 B
  • After minification 894 B
  • After compression 795 B

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. Adamsmithsociety.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99 B or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Adam Smith Society. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

adamsmithsociety.net accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

adamsmithsociety.net best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

adamsmithsociety.net SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Adamsmithsociety.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 Adamsmithsociety.net 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 Adam Smith Society. 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: