Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu

Digital Commons @ Otterbein | Otterbein University Research

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digitalcommons.otterbein.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 135 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

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.768

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu

135 ms

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu

287 ms

yui-min.js

58 ms

jquery.min.js

47 ms

launch-d525bb0064d8.min.js

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Digitalcommons.otterbein.edu, 52% (67 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (531 ms) relates to the external source Resources.bepress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.9 kB (40%)

Content Size

910.5 kB

After Optimization

546.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Digitalcommons.otterbein.edu main page is 910.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 399.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 280.6 kB

  • Original 340.4 kB
  • After minification 287.3 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 53.2 kB, which is 16% 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 280.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 105.2 kB
  • After minification 90.4 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. Obviously, Digital Commons Otterbein needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

  • Original 399.3 kB
  • After minification 399.3 kB
  • After compression 355.2 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 44.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Digitalcommons.otterbein.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 109 (87%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Commons Otterbein. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 86 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

digitalcommons.otterbein.edu SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

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Impact

Issue

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 Digitalcommons.otterbein.edu 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 Digitalcommons.otterbein.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Digital Commons Otterbein. 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: