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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    38% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ncgia.buffalo.edu

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis - University at Buffalo

Page Load Speed

796 ms in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

471 ms

Page Rendered

182 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncgia.buffalo.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 653 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncgia.buffalo.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncgia.buffalo.edu

143 ms

normalize.css

22 ms

style.css

61 ms

nivo-slider.css

40 ms

validation.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ncgia.buffalo.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (143 ms) belongs to the original domain Ncgia.buffalo.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

744.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ncgia.buffalo.edu 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 784.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 4.0 kB, which is 33% 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 9.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 91.2 kB

  • Original 784.1 kB
  • After minification 692.9 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, Ncgia Buffalo needs image optimization as it can save up to 91.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 170.9 kB
  • After minification 134.9 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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 127.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Ncgia.buffalo.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (25%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncgia Buffalo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ncgia.buffalo.edu

ncgia.buffalo.edu

143 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

22 ms

style.css

style.css

61 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

40 ms

validation.css

validation.css

42 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

101 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

40 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

62 ms

jquery.scrollTo-min.js

jquery.scrollTo-min.js

61 ms

zoombox.js

zoombox.js

79 ms

validation.js

validation.js

61 ms

main.js

main.js

78 ms

bg1_new.png

bg1_new.png

22 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

24 ms

blackBg.png

blackBg.png

22 ms

slide1.jpg

slide1.jpg

77 ms

slide2.jpg

slide2.jpg

66 ms

slide6.jpg

slide6.jpg

41 ms

slide3.jpg

slide3.jpg

76 ms

slide4.jpg

slide4.jpg

75 ms

slide5.jpg

slide5.jpg

77 ms

shadow.png

shadow.png

66 ms

NCGIA_2013_1.jpg

NCGIA_2013_1.jpg

77 ms

zoomHome.png

zoomHome.png

79 ms

down.gif

down.gif

95 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

93 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

95 ms

flickr.png

flickr.png

96 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

97 ms

img2.jpg

img2.jpg

95 ms

Spring4_Small.jpg

Spring4_Small.jpg

109 ms

pointer.png

pointer.png

110 ms

arrowLeft.png

arrowLeft.png

110 ms

arrowRight.png

arrowRight.png

112 ms

line1.png

line1.png

111 ms

bullet_active.png

bullet_active.png

112 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

126 ms

line2.png

line2.png

127 ms

romeral-webfont.woff

romeral-webfont.woff

70 ms

Accessibility Review

ncgia.buffalo.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ncgia.buffalo.edu 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

ncgia.buffalo.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Ncgia.buffalo.edu 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 Ncgia.buffalo.edu 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

ncgia.buffalo.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ncgia Buffalo. 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: