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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

alaskageology.org

ALASKA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - Home

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

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About Website

Visit alaskageology.org now to see the best up-to-date ALASKA Geology content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about alaskageology.org

​The Alaska Geological Society is an organization of both professional geoscientists and general earth science enthusiasts. Our mission is to promote interest in, and understanding of the geology of A...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alaskageology.org page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 1.3 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

alaskageology.org performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alaskageology.org

131 ms

www.alaskageology.org

151 ms

www.alaskageology.org

170 ms

sites.css

22 ms

fancybox.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Alaskageology.org, 52% (26 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (349 ms) belongs to the original domain Alaskageology.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alaskageology.org main page is 1.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 985.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 120.3 kB

  • Original 142.6 kB
  • After minification 140.5 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 120.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 985.1 kB
  • After minification 983.6 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. ALASKA Geology images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 500.4 kB
  • After minification 500.4 kB
  • After compression 491.7 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 721 B

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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. Alaskageology.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (53%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALASKA Geology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alaskageology.org

alaskageology.org

131 ms

www.alaskageology.org

www.alaskageology.org

151 ms

www.alaskageology.org

www.alaskageology.org

170 ms

sites.css

sites.css

22 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

18 ms

social-icons.css

social-icons.css

30 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

104 ms

font.css

font.css

19 ms

font.css

font.css

19 ms

font.css

font.css

20 ms

font.css

font.css

28 ms

font.css

font.css

29 ms

site_membership.css

site_membership.css

29 ms

templateArtifacts.js

templateArtifacts.js

117 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

32 ms

stl.js

stl.js

33 ms

main.js

main.js

34 ms

main-membership-site.js

main-membership-site.js

33 ms

commerce-core.js

commerce-core.js

32 ms

main-commerce-browse.js

main-commerce-browse.js

34 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

17 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

203 ms

custom.js

custom.js

201 ms

main-customer-accounts-site.js

main-customer-accounts-site.js

33 ms

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search-light.png

108 ms

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242 ms

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243 ms

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242 ms

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242 ms

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241 ms

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261 ms

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261 ms

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262 ms

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263 ms

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260 ms

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267 ms

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349 ms

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347 ms

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346 ms

ags-logojh-3.png

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347 ms

ga.js

ga.js

77 ms

snowday262.js

snowday262.js

53 ms

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22 ms

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21 ms

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23 ms

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22 ms

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20 ms

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20 ms

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24 ms

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23 ms

Accessibility Review

alaskageology.org accessibility score

94

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.

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

alaskageology.org best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alaskageology.org SEO score

83

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

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 Alaskageology.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 Alaskageology.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

alaskageology.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of ALASKA Geology. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: