Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

glims.org

GLIMS: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

112 ms

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About Website

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Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) - Monitoring the World's Changing Glaciers. GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) is an initiative designed to monitor the world's glaciers pr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glims.org page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glims.org performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glims.org

248 ms

www.glims.org

352 ms

glims_netscape_low.css

143 ms

tophat2.js

242 ms

utility.js

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Glims.org, 26% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov and 11% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (352 ms) belongs to the original domain Glims.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

419.9 kB

After Optimization

277.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Glims.org main page is 419.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 228.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 7.4 kB, which is 41% 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 14.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 223.2 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. GLIMS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 68.8 kB

  • Original 105.2 kB
  • After minification 105.2 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 68.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 67.9 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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. Glims.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (36%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GLIMS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glims.org accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

glims.org 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

glims.org SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Glims.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 Glims.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 description is not detected on the main page of GLIMS. 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: