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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

columbia-current.org

The Current - Spring 2022

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

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About Website

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The Current: a journal of contemporary politics, culture, and Jewish affairs at Columbia University

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbia-current.org page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 1.2 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

columbia-current.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.553

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbia-current.org

134 ms

www.columbia-current.org

211 ms

sites.css

16 ms

fancybox.css

30 ms

main_style.css

354 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Columbia-current.org, 40% (10 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) belongs to the original domain Columbia-current.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

594.2 kB

After Optimization

508.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Columbia-current.org main page is 594.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 501.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. 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 24.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 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. Columbia Current images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 501.0 kB
  • After minification 501.0 kB
  • After compression 440.2 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 60.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 257 B

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Columbia-current.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (57%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbia Current. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

columbia-current.org

columbia-current.org

134 ms

www.columbia-current.org

www.columbia-current.org

211 ms

sites.css

sites.css

16 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

30 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

354 ms

font.css

font.css

28 ms

templateArtifacts.js

templateArtifacts.js

117 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

37 ms

stl.js

stl.js

31 ms

main.js

main.js

32 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

13 ms

main-customer-accounts-site.js

main-customer-accounts-site.js

30 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

189 ms

social-icons.png

social-icons.png

137 ms

nav-separator.png

nav-separator.png

138 ms

banner-wrapper.png

banner-wrapper.png

280 ms

the-scream_1.jpg

the-scream_1.jpg

215 ms

button.png

button.png

136 ms

regular.woff

regular.woff

77 ms

bold.woff

bold.woff

75 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

25 ms

ga.js

ga.js

24 ms

snowday262.js

snowday262.js

22 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

js

js

63 ms

Accessibility Review

columbia-current.org accessibility score

85

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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

columbia-current.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

columbia-current.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Columbia-current.org 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 Columbia-current.org 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

columbia-current.org

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