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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ercim.eu

ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ercim.eu page load time and found that the first response time was 377 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ercim.eu performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ercim.eu

377 ms

www.ercim.eu

1209 ms

captchaStyle.css

182 ms

jmod_tweetdisplay.css

188 ms

mootools-core.js

457 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Ercim.eu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fellowship.ercim.eu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Ercim.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 109.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

249.4 kB

After Optimization

139.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ercim.eu main page is 249.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 119.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 18.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 78.8 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. ERCIM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 119.4 kB
  • After minification 118.1 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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 69.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Ercim.eu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (73%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ERCIM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ercim.eu

ercim.eu

377 ms

www.ercim.eu

www.ercim.eu

1209 ms

captchaStyle.css

captchaStyle.css

182 ms

jmod_tweetdisplay.css

jmod_tweetdisplay.css

188 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

457 ms

core.js

core.js

186 ms

caption.js

caption.js

188 ms

template.css

template.css

274 ms

system.css

system.css

271 ms

general.css

general.css

275 ms

script.js

script.js

1734 ms

system.css

system.css

94 ms

script.js

script.js

95 ms

ga.js

ga.js

45 ms

cover.jpg

cover.jpg

371 ms

R-8JepzV_normal.jpeg

R-8JepzV_normal.jpeg

32 ms

abcde.png

abcde.png

370 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

207 ms

home1.jpg

home1.jpg

198 ms

it.png

it.png

109 ms

cz.png

cz.png

108 ms

nl.png

nl.png

110 ms

de.png

de.png

109 ms

lu.png

lu.png

202 ms

be.png

be.png

198 ms

gr.png

gr.png

202 ms

pt.png

pt.png

204 ms

fr.png

fr.png

288 ms

no.png

no.png

290 ms

at.png

at.png

290 ms

se.png

se.png

290 ms

gb.png

gb.png

291 ms

es.png

es.png

292 ms

hu.png

hu.png

380 ms

cy.png

cy.png

381 ms

pl.png

pl.png

383 ms

fi.png

fi.png

383 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

385 ms

ERCIM_evolves-icon.jpg

ERCIM_evolves-icon.jpg

387 ms

w3c_home.png

w3c_home.png

469 ms

livemarks.png

livemarks.png

470 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

472 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

abcde.png

abcde.png

396 ms

Accessibility Review

ercim.eu accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ercim.eu 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ercim.eu SEO score

83

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

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 Ercim.eu 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 Ercim.eu 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

ercim.eu

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