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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

blog.gale.com

Gale Blog: Library & Educator News | K12, Academic & Public | The Gale Blog features product updates, library and educator news, advancements in acade...

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

812 ms

Page Rendered

794 ms

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About Website

Visit blog.gale.com now to see the best up-to-date Blog Gale content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.gale.com

The Gale Blog features product updates, library and educator news, advancements in academic research, public library insights & more. Click to read.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.gale.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.gale.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.gale.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (247 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.gale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.gale.com main page is 1.8 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 107.8 kB

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 128.8 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. 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 107.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Blog Gale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 832 B

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 74.6 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 69.9 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. Blog.gale.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (60%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Gale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blog.gale.com accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.gale.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blog.gale.com SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

blog.gale.com

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