Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

libguides.ecu.edu

Home - Research Guides at East Carolina University Libraries

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

102 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Libguides.ecu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 2.1 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

libguides.ecu.edu performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.359

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

libguides.ecu.edu

1598 ms

1.8.24_themes_base_jquery-ui.css

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

6 ms

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.css

69 ms

springshare.public.min.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Libguides.ecu.edu, 22% (6 requests) were made to Lib.ecu.edu and 11% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Libguides.ecu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 506.4 kB (72%)

Content Size

707.0 kB

After Optimization

200.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Libguides.ecu.edu main page is 707.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 471.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.3 kB, which is 20% 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 16.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 18.2 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. Lib Guides Ecu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 330.6 kB

  • Original 471.5 kB
  • After minification 471.5 kB
  • After compression 140.9 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 330.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 157.0 kB

  • Original 193.6 kB
  • After minification 193.5 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Libguides.ecu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 157.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lib Guides Ecu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

libguides.ecu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

libguides.ecu.edu 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

libguides.ecu.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Libguides.ecu.edu 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 Libguides.ecu.edu 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 Lib Guides Ecu. 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: