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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

base-search.net

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Basic Search

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

977 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

Welcome to base-search.net homepage info - get ready to check BASE Search best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about base-search.net

More than 340 mio. scientific documents from more than 11.000 content providers. BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic web resources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Base-search.net page load time and found that the first response time was 977 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

base-search.net performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,070 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

base-search.net

977 ms

www.base-search.net

1349 ms

screen.css

326 ms

base.js

333 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

440 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Base-search.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Base-search.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.7 kB (72%)

Content Size

240.9 kB

After Optimization

67.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Base-search.net main page is 240.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 182.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.2 kB, which is 24% 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 3.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 182.1 kB
  • After minification 178.4 kB
  • After compression 57.7 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 124.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Base-search.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (68%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BASE Search. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

base-search.net

base-search.net

977 ms

www.base-search.net

www.base-search.net

1349 ms

screen.css

screen.css

326 ms

base.js

base.js

333 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

440 ms

yahoo-min.js

yahoo-min.js

331 ms

event-min.js

event-min.js

438 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

436 ms

datasource-min.js

datasource-min.js

542 ms

autocomplete-min.js

autocomplete-min.js

549 ms

dragdrop-min.js

dragdrop-min.js

540 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

538 ms

rc4.js

rc4.js

539 ms

ajax.yui.js

ajax.yui.js

564 ms

logo_base.gif

logo_base.gif

108 ms

banner_en.png

banner_en.png

108 ms

base_blog.png

base_blog.png

103 ms

oai.png

oai.png

108 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

104 ms

wikipedia.png

wikipedia.png

104 ms

logoverbund_ub.png

logoverbund_ub.png

205 ms

layout_add.png

layout_add.png

181 ms

arrow_switch.png

arrow_switch.png

181 ms

print.css

print.css

134 ms

Accessibility Review

base-search.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

base-search.net 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

SEO Factors

base-search.net SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Base-search.net 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 Base-search.net 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

base-search.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BASE Search. 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: