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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sars.no

Michael Sars Centre | University of Bergen

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

333 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

About Website

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The Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen, is an international community of scientists using advanced technologies to study the unique molecular and cellular biology of marine organisms in a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sars.no page load time and found that the first response time was 333 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sars.no performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sars.no

333 ms

michaelsarscentre

120 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

110 ms

css_LzzNjvyQpSxyIbQ8CjQDdsJQqRnd8fNiXTcMlXTqIVE.css

218 ms

css_hFjMpgojz5tLIvTCOXkG5jneFLTaWNX_hakVb3yaMeE.css

326 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sars.no, 54% (38 requests) were made to Uib.no and 25% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Uib.no.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sars.no main page is 2.1 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 59.5 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 48.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Sars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 117.6 kB
  • After minification 112.3 kB
  • After compression 90.7 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 26.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 208.4 kB
  • After minification 208.4 kB
  • After compression 164.7 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. Sars.no needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (73%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sars.no accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sars.no 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sars.no SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sars.no 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 Sars.no 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 Sars. 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: