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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

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50 State Guide - eReferenceDesk.com

Page Load Speed

809 ms in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

508 ms

Page Rendered

263 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ereferencedesk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 771 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ereferencedesk.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.675

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ereferencedesk.com

38 ms

www.ereferencedesk.com

124 ms

erd-2.jpg

40 ms

adsbygoogle.js

67 ms

quote-top.js

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Ereferencedesk.com, 23% (5 requests) were made to Img.tfd.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Img.tfd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

163.7 kB

After Optimization

104.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ereferencedesk.com main page is 163.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 89.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. 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 58.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 953 B

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 88.9 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. EReferenceDesk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 103 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 4 (20%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EReferenceDesk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ereferencedesk.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ereferencedesk.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ereferencedesk.com SEO score

91

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ereferencedesk.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 Ereferencedesk.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 EReferenceDesk. 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: