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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu

The Daily Iowan: Archive covering 1868-present - The University of Iowa Libraries

Page Load Speed

351 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

203 ms

Page Rendered

52 ms

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Dating back to 1868 the Daily Iowan Newspaper Collection provides access to digitized versions of The Daily Iowan and its predecessors: the University Reporter (1868-81), the Vidette (1879-81), the Vi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 255 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu

96 ms

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (105 ms) belongs to the original domain Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.9 kB (34%)

Content Size

151.1 kB

After Optimization

99.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu main page is 151.1 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 127.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 65 B

  • Original 237 B
  • After minification 234 B
  • After compression 172 B

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 65 B or 27% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 46.6 kB

  • Original 127.1 kB
  • After minification 80.4 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. Obviously, Daily Iowan Lib U Iowa needs image optimization as it can save up to 46.6 kB or 37% 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 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-78%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Daily Iowan Lib U Iowa. 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: