Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

histcite.com

Clarivate - Data, Insights and Analytics for the Innovation Lifecycle

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

788 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Histcite.com page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

histcite.com performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

histcite.com

132 ms

researchsoft.com

146 ms

clarivate.com

2003 ms

toolset-common-es-frontend.js

26 ms

page.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Histcite.com, 83% (44 requests) were made to Clarivate.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Clarivate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 517.5 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

770.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Histcite.com main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 461.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 409.9 kB

  • Original 461.9 kB
  • After minification 293.2 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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 168.7 kB, which is 37% 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 409.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 268.3 kB
  • After minification 268.3 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. Histcite images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 48.7 kB

  • Original 327.0 kB
  • After minification 327.0 kB
  • After compression 278.3 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 48.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 230.9 kB
  • After minification 230.9 kB
  • After compression 172.0 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. Histcite.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.9 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (76%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Histcite. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

histcite.com 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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

histcite.com best practices score

67

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

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

histcite.com 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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Histcite.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 Histcite.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Histcite. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: