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biologydirect.com

Home page | Biology Direct

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

239 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biologydirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.biologydirect.com

129 ms

biologydirect.biomedcentral.com

446 ms

css

77 ms

suis-biomedcentral.86d30a9e.css

1034 ms

webtrekk_v4.min.js

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Biologydirect.com, 46% (13 requests) were made to Biologydirect.biomedcentral.com and 18% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Biologydirect.biomedcentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 503.1 kB (72%)

Content Size

703.0 kB

After Optimization

199.9 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Biologydirect.com main page is 703.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 651.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 7.7 kB, which is 15% 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 41.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 461.9 kB

  • Original 651.3 kB
  • After minification 651.3 kB
  • After compression 189.5 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 461.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (38%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Biology Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.biologydirect.com

www.biologydirect.com

129 ms

biologydirect.biomedcentral.com

biologydirect.biomedcentral.com

446 ms

css

css

77 ms

suis-biomedcentral.86d30a9e.css

suis-biomedcentral.86d30a9e.css

1034 ms

webtrekk_v4.min.js

webtrekk_v4.min.js

372 ms

oscar.bd472c3f.js

oscar.bd472c3f.js

683 ms

mathjaxConfig.698a06c9.js

mathjaxConfig.698a06c9.js

170 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

15 ms

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biomed-central-logo_180x35.aea55d8f.png

219 ms

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springer-logo_75x20.7763bac1.png

229 ms

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317 ms

9CC.js

9CC.js

41 ms

aC6.js

aC6.js

39 ms

Oregon_LDO_Book.woff

Oregon_LDO_Book.woff

356 ms

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collect

25 ms

realMedia

realMedia

233 ms

realMedia

realMedia

229 ms

realMedia

realMedia

365 ms

collect

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34 ms

MathJax.js

MathJax.js

32 ms

TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML.js

TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML.js

13 ms

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362 ms

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363 ms

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232 ms

suis-biomedcentral-print.201cf5fb.css

suis-biomedcentral-print.201cf5fb.css

126 ms

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empty.gif

18 ms

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5 ms

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3 ms

SEO Factors

biologydirect.com SEO score

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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 Biologydirect.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 Biologydirect.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Biology Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: