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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

epicypher.com

EpiCypher | Bringing Epigenetics to Life | For scientists. By scientists.

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

559 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epicypher.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epicypher.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epicypher.com

112 ms

epicypher.com

83 ms

www.epicypher.com

899 ms

jquery.min.js

87 ms

slick.js

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Epicypher.com, 18% (22 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 12% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (998 ms) belongs to the original domain Epicypher.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epicypher.com main page is 4.0 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. 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 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 180.0 kB

  • Original 212.2 kB
  • After minification 169.5 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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 42.6 kB, which is 20% 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 180.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 MB

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. Epi Cypher images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 371.0 kB
  • After minification 371.0 kB
  • After compression 309.0 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 62.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. Epicypher.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.4 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (55%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epi Cypher. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

epicypher.com accessibility score

53

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[role] values are not valid

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

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

epicypher.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

epicypher.com SEO score

84

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

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 Epicypher.com 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 Epicypher.com 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 Epi Cypher. 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: