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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

eurolibraries.com

European Database of Libraries - Library mailing lists from Agriculture to Law to Zoology

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Euro Libraries content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about eurolibraries.com

The European Database of Libraries sends out mailing lists to libraries covering a wide range of topics, from Agriculture, Biological Sciences and Catering to Transport, Wildlife and Zoology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eurolibraries.com page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eurolibraries.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.283

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eurolibraries.com

248 ms

main.asp

369 ms

inc_usingNetscape.js

84 ms

inc_flashversion.js

164 ms

home.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Eurolibraries.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) belongs to the original domain Eurolibraries.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

323.4 kB

After Optimization

256.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eurolibraries.com main page is 323.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 230.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 5.3 kB, which is 13% 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 33.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 230.9 kB
  • After minification 226.8 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. Euro Libraries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 25.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Eurolibraries.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (36%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Euro Libraries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

eurolibraries.com

eurolibraries.com

248 ms

main.asp

main.asp

369 ms

inc_usingNetscape.js

inc_usingNetscape.js

84 ms

inc_flashversion.js

inc_flashversion.js

164 ms

home.css

home.css

163 ms

inc_tools.js

inc_tools.js

162 ms

jquery.treeview.css

jquery.treeview.css

170 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

265 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

170 ms

jquery.treeview.js

jquery.treeview.js

240 ms

library_signup.asp

library_signup.asp

160 ms

publisher_signup.asp

publisher_signup.asp

220 ms

bg_shadow2.jpg

bg_shadow2.jpg

80 ms

top_shadow2.jpg

top_shadow2.jpg

97 ms

top_shadow2.jpg

top_shadow2.jpg

153 ms

edl-banner-targeting.jpg

edl-banner-targeting.jpg

389 ms

date_bar.jpg

date_bar.jpg

165 ms

logo-spacer.gif

logo-spacer.gif

163 ms

information-for-libraries-sign-up.jpg

information-for-libraries-sign-up.jpg

307 ms

information-for-publishers-sign-up.jpg

information-for-publishers-sign-up.jpg

318 ms

view-button.gif

view-button.gif

244 ms

specialist-search-go.jpg

specialist-search-go.jpg

246 ms

specialist-mailings.jpg

specialist-mailings.jpg

297 ms

specialist-mailings-bottom.gif

specialist-mailings-bottom.gif

328 ms

bottom_shadow2.jpg

bottom_shadow2.jpg

329 ms

expand-collapse.gif

expand-collapse.gif

270 ms

specialist-mailings-bg.jpg

specialist-mailings-bg.jpg

278 ms

treeview-default-line.gif

treeview-default-line.gif

262 ms

treeview-default.gif

treeview-default.gif

269 ms

main.css

main.css

257 ms

Accessibility Review

eurolibraries.com accessibility score

51

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

eurolibraries.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

eurolibraries.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eurolibraries.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 Eurolibraries.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

eurolibraries.com

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