Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gatewaytoscience.org

North Dakota's Gateway to Science - Home

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

314 ms

gatewaytoscience.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gateway To Science content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gatewaytoscience.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatewaytoscience.org page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatewaytoscience.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,500 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatewaytoscience.org

164 ms

gatewaytoscience.org

418 ms

gtm.js

68 ms

vct5hvc.css

459 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Gatewaytoscience.org, 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Gatewaytoscience.membership.veevartapp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gatewaytoscience.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Gatewaytoscience.org main page is 2.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

  • Original 101.2 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. 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 81.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 93.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Gateway To Science images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 526.6 kB
  • After minification 526.6 kB
  • After compression 489.5 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 264.6 kB
  • After minification 264.1 kB
  • After compression 219.5 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. Gatewaytoscience.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (65%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gateway To Science. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gatewaytoscience.org accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gatewaytoscience.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gatewaytoscience.org SEO score

86

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Gatewaytoscience.org 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 Gatewaytoscience.org 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 data is detected on the main page of Gateway To Science. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: