Access discover.gia.edu. Gemological Institute Of America

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.855

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

discover.gia.edu

216 ms

discover.gia.edu

183 ms

www.gia.edu

134 ms

heg5qxh.css

51 ms

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30 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Discover.gia.edu, 68% (47 requests) were made to Gia.edu and 22% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (325 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Discover.gia.edu main page is 2.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 175.8 kB

Original 189.8 kB
After minification 84.3 kB
After compression 13.9 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 105.5 kB, which is 56% 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 175.8 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

Original 1.3 MB
After minification 1.2 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. Discover GIA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 461.6 kB

Original 694.9 kB
After minification 694.9 kB
After compression 233.2 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 461.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 414.3 kB

Original 489.7 kB
After minification 487.6 kB
After compression 75.5 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. Discover.gia.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 414.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover GIA. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Discover.gia.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 Discover.gia.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

discover.gia.edu

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Gemological Institute Of America | All About Gemstones - GIA

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

discover.gia.edu

discover.gia.edu

www.gia.edu

heg5qxh.css

_app.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

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discover.gia.edu

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