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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

science.discoveryplace.org

Home - Discovery Place Science Museum

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

261 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Science.discoveryplace.org page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

science.discoveryplace.org performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.75

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

science.discoveryplace.org

241 ms

discoveryplace.org

207 ms

discoveryplace.org

355 ms

js

68 ms

style-blocks.build.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Science.discoveryplace.org, 93% (100 requests) were made to Discoveryplace.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) relates to the external source Dscplace.wpengine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.5 kB (1%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Science.discoveryplace.org main page is 7.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 91.9 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 111.5 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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 91.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Science Discovery Place images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.3 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 2.1 kB

  • Original 75.0 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB
  • After compression 72.9 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. Science.discoveryplace.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (79%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Discovery Place. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

science.discoveryplace.org

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241 ms

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207 ms

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355 ms

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68 ms

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Accessibility Review

science.discoveryplace.org accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

science.discoveryplace.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

science.discoveryplace.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

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 Science.discoveryplace.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 Science.discoveryplace.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

science.discoveryplace.org

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