Access sciencecommunication.info. Department of Science Communication Home, Centre for Science Communication

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.8 s

0/100

10%

sciencecommunication.info

469 ms

science-communication

457 ms

main.css

267 ms

widget.js

176 ms

main.js

657 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sciencecommunication.info, 38% (14 requests) were made to Otago.ac.nz and 14% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) relates to the external source Otago.ac.nz.

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Sciencecommunication.info main page is 3.2 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. 80% 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 345.7 kB

Original 610.6 kB
After minification 529.7 kB
After compression 265.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 80.9 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 345.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

Original 309.7 kB
After minification 304.3 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. Science Communication images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 222.2 kB

Original 2.2 MB
After minification 2.2 MB
After compression 1.9 MB

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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 164.9 kB
After minification 164.9 kB
After compression 164.9 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. Sciencecommunication.info has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Communication. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.