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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

hurricanescience.org

Hurricanes: Science and Society: Home

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

261 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hurricanescience.org page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hurricanescience.org performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hurricanescience.org

182 ms

hurricanescience.org

315 ms

rollover.js

79 ms

main.css

151 ms

menu.css

207 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hurricanescience.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) belongs to the original domain Hurricanescience.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

404.9 kB

After Optimization

354.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hurricanescience.org main page is 404.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 299.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 11.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 299.7 kB
  • After minification 294.0 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. Hurricanes Cience images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 78.7 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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 31.4 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 6.5 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Hurricanescience.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (68%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hurricanes Cience. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hurricanescience.org

hurricanescience.org

182 ms

hurricanescience.org

hurricanescience.org

315 ms

rollover.js

rollover.js

79 ms

main.css

main.css

151 ms

menu.css

menu.css

207 ms

custom.css

custom.css

225 ms

yahoo.js

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209 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

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209 ms

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208 ms

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230 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

339 ms

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274 ms

jquery-impromptu.css

jquery-impromptu.css

282 ms

flash.js

flash.js

281 ms

swfobject.js

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293 ms

swfaddress.js

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293 ms

wz_tooltip.js

wz_tooltip.js

373 ms

bg_gradient.jpg

bg_gradient.jpg

146 ms

bg.jpg

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320 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

142 ms

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140 ms

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142 ms

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153 ms

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253 ms

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517 ms

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544 ms

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542 ms

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565 ms

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566 ms

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577 ms

Accessibility Review

hurricanescience.org accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hurricanescience.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hurricanescience.org SEO score

58

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hurricanescience.org 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 Hurricanescience.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

hurricanescience.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hurricanes Cience. 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: