Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

halifax.bibliocommons.com

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Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

65 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Halifax.bibliocommons.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

halifax.bibliocommons.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.709

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

halifax.bibliocommons.com

37 ms

halifax.bibliocommons.com

397 ms

gtm.js

71 ms

bc_base-7458b34fb4de9be11818e405e123b860.css

42 ms

core-0ebb1c96c1022e0da243d70f0cde2466.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Halifax.bibliocommons.com, 44% (11 requests) were made to Cor-cdn-static.bibliocommons.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (397 ms) belongs to the original domain Halifax.bibliocommons.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Halifax.bibliocommons.com main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 211.6 kB

  • Original 245.9 kB
  • After minification 241.7 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 211.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 10.3 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. Obviously, Halifax Biblio Commons needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 19% 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 9 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.2 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 97.7 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 94.3 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. Halifax.bibliocommons.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (68%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Halifax Biblio Commons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

halifax.bibliocommons.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

halifax.bibliocommons.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

halifax.bibliocommons.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Halifax.bibliocommons.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 Halifax.bibliocommons.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 description is not detected on the main page of Halifax Biblio Commons. 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: