Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

rifm.org

Home | The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

205 ms

About Website

Visit rifm.org now to see the best up-to-date Rifm content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rifm.org

The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) provides a scientific basis for the safe use of fragrance for the protection of consumers and the environment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rifm.org page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rifm.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.274

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rifm.org

192 ms

rifm.org

511 ms

style.css

232 ms

style.min.css

314 ms

styles.css

319 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Rifm.org, 11% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to P.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (691 ms) belongs to the original domain Rifm.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

771.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Rifm.org main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 471.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 230.5 kB

  • Original 316.2 kB
  • After minification 310.0 kB
  • After compression 85.6 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 230.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 306 B

  • Original 471.2 kB
  • After minification 470.9 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. Rifm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 198.1 kB
  • After minification 198.0 kB
  • After compression 196.2 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 938 B

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 19.6 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. Rifm.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (66%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rifm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rifm.org accessibility score

84

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

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

rifm.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rifm.org SEO score

100

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

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