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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

natureresearch.com.au

Nature | Strategic Insights

Page Load Speed

17.2 sec in total

First Response

653 ms

Resources Loaded

10.5 sec

Page Rendered

6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Natureresearch.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 653 ms and then it took 16.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

natureresearch.com.au performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

natureresearch.com.au

653 ms

natureresearch.com.au

879 ms

nature.com.au

2028 ms

ma_customfonts.css

217 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

434 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Natureresearch.com.au, 79% (96 requests) were made to Nature.com.au and 6% (7 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Nature.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.5 MB (67%)

Content Size

27.5 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Natureresearch.com.au main page is 27.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 154.1 kB

  • Original 190.4 kB
  • After minification 189.2 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 154.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 18.4 MB

  • Original 27.1 MB
  • After minification 8.7 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. Obviously, Nature Research needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.4 MB or 68% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 794 B

  • Original 211.7 kB
  • After minification 211.7 kB
  • After compression 210.9 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 924 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Natureresearch.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (27%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

78

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nature Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

natureresearch.com.au accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

natureresearch.com.au 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

natureresearch.com.au 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

robots.txt is not valid

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 Natureresearch.com.au 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 Natureresearch.com.au 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 data is detected on the main page of Nature Research. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: