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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

rest.genenames.org

REST web-service help | HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

About Website

Welcome to rest.genenames.org homepage info - get ready to check REST Gene Names best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about rest.genenames.org

The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) REST web-service is a convenient and quick way of searching and fetching data from our database within a script/program. Users may request results as either...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rest.genenames.org page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rest.genenames.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,670 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rest.genenames.org

332 ms

424 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

default-bf.css

174 ms

hgnc-logo-dark-bckgrnd-small.svg

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Rest.genenames.org, 56% (23 requests) were made to Genenames.org and 12% (5 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (851 ms) relates to the external source Genenames.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 415.9 kB (45%)

Content Size

926.8 kB

After Optimization

510.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rest.genenames.org main page is 926.8 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. 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. Javascripts take 482.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 324.8 kB

  • Original 355.2 kB
  • After minification 349.2 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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 324.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 997 B
  • After minification 997 B

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. REST Gene Names images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 482.0 kB
  • After minification 482.0 kB
  • After compression 398.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 83.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 80.8 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. Rest.genenames.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (21%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of REST Gene Names. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rest.genenames.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.

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rest.genenames.org best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rest.genenames.org SEO score

97

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

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 Rest.genenames.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 Rest.genenames.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of REST Gene Names. 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: