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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

cite.com

Cite.com | Online Citations, Bibliography Maker, Works Cited And More

Page Load Speed

624 ms in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

486 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cite.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 613 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cite.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cite.com

11 ms

www.cite.com

42 ms

gtm.js

105 ms

bootstrap.css

10 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Cite.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (192 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.cookielaw.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

297.0 kB

After Optimization

279.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cite.com main page is 297.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 238.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 3.8 kB, which is 20% 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 14.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.9 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. Cite images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 238.7 kB
  • After minification 238.7 kB
  • After compression 238.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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. Cite.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cite. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cite.com

cite.com

11 ms

www.cite.com

www.cite.com

42 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

105 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

10 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

27 ms

default.css

default.css

26 ms

default-responsive.css

default-responsive.css

31 ms

default.css

default.css

29 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

32 ms

homepage-responsive.css

homepage-responsive.css

34 ms

css

css

42 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

69 ms

LAB.min.js

LAB.min.js

30 ms

ga.js

ga.js

83 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

161 ms

quant.js

quant.js

76 ms

56a51175-952c-4eb4-9556-a7088b903ce0.json

56a51175-952c-4eb4-9556-a7088b903ce0.json

192 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

53 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

117 ms

global_logo.png

global_logo.png

38 ms

global-ui_spr.png

global-ui_spr.png

37 ms

homepage_icons.png

homepage_icons.png

37 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVcUwaEQXjM.ttf

37 ms

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104 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVcUwaEQXjM.ttf

110 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

72 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

47 ms

collect

collect

138 ms

location

location

135 ms

Accessibility Review

cite.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

cite.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cite.com SEO score

76

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cite.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 Cite.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

cite.com

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