Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

xjournals.com

XJournals | Open access to +6,500 scientific journals

Page Load Speed

38.1 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

38 sec

Page Rendered

73 ms

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XJournals facilitates the search and access to +6,500 scientific journals, promoting the exchange of relevant knowledge worldwide

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Key Findings

We analyzed Xjournals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 38.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

xjournals.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

xjournals.com

63 ms

xjournals.com

133 ms

DXR.axd

1538 ms

js

59 ms

adsbygoogle.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Xjournals.com, 15% (9 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 15% (9 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Xjournals.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

863.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Xjournals.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 877.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 33.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. 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 23.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 15.2 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, XJournals needs image optimization as it can save up to 15.1 kB or 50% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 86.9 kB

  • Original 877.7 kB
  • After minification 874.2 kB
  • After compression 790.8 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 65.8 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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. Xjournals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (68%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of XJournals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

xjournals.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

xjournals.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

xjournals.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Xjournals.com 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 Xjournals.com 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 XJournals. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: