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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

digitallibrarydirectory.com

Digital Library Directory | An Online Directory of the Best Digital Library Resources

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

526 ms

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About Website

Visit digitallibrarydirectory.com now to see the best up-to-date Digital Library Directory content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about digitallibrarydirectory.com

Digital Library Directory is an online cataloged resource that serves as a digital registry of the best digital library, digital collection and digitized archive resources across the web.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digitallibrarydirectory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digitallibrarydirectory.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.865

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digitallibrarydirectory.com

193 ms

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1174 ms

node.css

88 ms

defaults.css

170 ms

system.css

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Digitallibrarydirectory.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Digitallibrarydirectory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 315.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Digitallibrarydirectory.com main page is 1.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 206.1 kB

  • Original 233.0 kB
  • After minification 220.7 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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. 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 206.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 89.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

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. Digital Library Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 52.4 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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 8.2 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Digitallibrarydirectory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (32%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

45

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Library Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

digitallibrarydirectory.com

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193 ms

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Accessibility Review

digitallibrarydirectory.com accessibility score

74

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

digitallibrarydirectory.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

digitallibrarydirectory.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Digitallibrarydirectory.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Digitallibrarydirectory.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

digitallibrarydirectory.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Digital Library Directory. 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: