Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

expertfile.com

ExpertFile | Search for Industry & Academic Experts

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

817 ms

Page Rendered

357 ms

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About Website

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ExpertFile is the worlds largest open-access, curated search engine for experts trusted by journalists, industry, funding agencies and policymakers looking for fresh expert perspectives. Find experts ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expertfile.com page load time and found that the first response time was 88 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expertfile.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expertfile.com

88 ms

js

75 ms

font-awesome.min.css

29 ms

jquery.qtip.min.css

27 ms

css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Expertfile.com, 17% (16 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) relates to the external source S3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 881.7 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Expertfile.com main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 30.3 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 25.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 159.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 965.7 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. Obviously, Expert File needs image optimization as it can save up to 159.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 443.8 kB

  • Original 679.8 kB
  • After minification 649.9 kB
  • After compression 236.0 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 443.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 253.5 kB

  • Original 295.6 kB
  • After minification 253.8 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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. Expertfile.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 253.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (29%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expert File. 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 JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

expertfile.com accessibility score

94

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

expertfile.com best practices score

83

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

expertfile.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Expertfile.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 Expertfile.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

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