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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

metascience.com

Metascience - The Emerging Field of Research on the Scientific Process | Metascience.com

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

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About Website

Welcome to metascience.com homepage info - get ready to check Metascience best content right away, or after learning these important things about metascience.com

Metascience is the field of research on the scientific process. This includes the history and philosophy of science. What is science? What is science as a process? What practices and principles govern...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metascience.com page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metascience.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metascience.com

226 ms

metascience.com

1472 ms

uc.js

78 ms

style.min.css

71 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Metascience.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Metascience.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 471.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metascience.com main page is 3.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 41.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Metascience images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 253.3 kB

  • Original 433.7 kB
  • After minification 433.7 kB
  • After compression 180.4 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 253.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 88.6 kB

  • Original 135.9 kB
  • After minification 135.9 kB
  • After compression 47.3 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. Metascience.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metascience. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metascience.com

metascience.com

226 ms

metascience.com

metascience.com

1472 ms

uc.js

uc.js

78 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

71 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

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71 ms

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wp-mediaelement.min.css

71 ms

styles.min.css

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206 ms

carousel.min.css

carousel.min.css

292 ms

all.css

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158 ms

style.css

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498 ms

jquery.min.js

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72 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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71 ms

analytics.js

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20 ms

utils.min.js

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313 ms

carousel.min.js

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325 ms

cookie-min.js

cookie-min.js

292 ms

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506 ms

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582 ms

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400 ms

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25 ms

collect

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12 ms

js

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88 ms

css

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28 ms

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208 ms

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117 ms

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393 ms

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289 ms

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186 ms

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431 ms

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348 ms

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583 ms

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652 ms

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ms-icon.png

486 ms

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457 ms

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505 ms

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HeptaSlab-Regular.otf

704 ms

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GothamSSm-Black_Web.woff

585 ms

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GothamSSm-Medium_Web.woff

675 ms

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GothamSSm-Book_Web.woff

603 ms

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GothamSSm-MediumItalic_Web.woff

691 ms

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797 ms

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724 ms

HeptaSlab-Medium.otf

HeptaSlab-Medium.otf

833 ms

Accessibility Review

metascience.com accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

metascience.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

metascience.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Metascience.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed German language. Our system also found out that Metascience.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

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