Access harvardpress.com. The Harvard Press | Harvard's independent weekly newspaper

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

harvardpress.com

1916 ms

Template.css

52 ms

default.css

76 ms

module.css

48 ms

module.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Harvardpress.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Harvardpress.com.

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

742.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Harvardpress.com main page is 3.4 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. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

Original 142.6 kB
After minification 126.2 kB
After compression 24.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.4 kB, which is 12% 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 117.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

Original 97.1 kB
After minification 86.9 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. Harvard Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

Original 2.2 MB
After minification 1.7 MB
After compression 501.4 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 1.7 MB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 866.5 kB

Original 996.0 kB
After minification 859.8 kB
After compression 129.6 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. Harvardpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 866.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harvard Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Harvardpress.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 Harvardpress.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

harvardpress.com

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

The Harvard Press | Harvard's independent weekly newspaper

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

harvardpress.com

Template.css

default.css

module.css

module.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

harvardpress.com

Template.css

default.css

module.css

module.css

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

module.css

module.css

skin.css

THPHome.css

container.css

portal.css

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap-tagsinput.css

styles.css

jquery-ui.css

jquery.wysiwyg.css

colorpicker.css

jquery.js

jquery-migrate.js

jquery-ui.js

WebResource.axd

actionform.js

jquery.min.js

jquery.autocomplete.js

jquery.validate.js

jquery.wysiwyg2.min.js

colorpicker.js

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typeahead.min.js

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modernizr.min.js

dnnsf.js

script.js

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dnn.js

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