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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

chandra.harvard.edu

Chandra X-ray Observatory - NASA's flagship X-ray telescope

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

chandra.harvard.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chandra.harvard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chandra.harvard.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chandra.harvard.edu

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Our browser made a total of 211 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (119 requests) were addressed to the original Chandra.harvard.edu, 9% (19 requests) were made to Live.staticflickr.com and 8% (16 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Chandra.harvard.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chandra.harvard.edu main page is 3.7 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. 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 116.0 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 133.2 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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 116.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 156.3 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Chandra Harvard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 57.1 kB

  • Original 376.3 kB
  • After minification 357.2 kB
  • After compression 319.1 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 57.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 53.4 kB

  • Original 119.2 kB
  • After minification 103.0 kB
  • After compression 65.7 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. Chandra.harvard.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (32%)

Requests Now

202

After Optimization

138

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 202 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chandra Harvard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

chandra.harvard.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

chandra.harvard.edu best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

chandra.harvard.edu SEO score

78

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chandra.harvard.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Chandra.harvard.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

chandra.harvard.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chandra Harvard. 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: