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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

oceans-research.com

Marine Research - Education - Conservation South Africa | Oceans Research

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Oceans Research content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about oceans-research.com

Oceans Research Institute provides and facilitates marine research to manage and conserve Southern Africa’s wildlife like white sharks, Humpback dolphins/whales, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oceans-research.com page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oceans-research.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,940 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oceans-research.com

346 ms

www.oceans-research.com

1162 ms

style.css

126 ms

all.css

42 ms

js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Oceans-research.com, 14% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 10% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Oceans-research.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 389.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oceans-research.com main page is 1.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 812.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 146.3 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 158.0 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 146.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 809.0 kB
  • After minification 798.0 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. Oceans Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 230.0 kB

  • Original 812.1 kB
  • After minification 812.1 kB
  • After compression 582.0 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 230.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 114.2 kB
  • After compression 112.6 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. Oceans-research.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (67%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oceans Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

oceans-research.com

oceans-research.com

346 ms

www.oceans-research.com

www.oceans-research.com

1162 ms

style.css

style.css

126 ms

all.css

all.css

42 ms

js

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55 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

17 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

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251 ms

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471 ms

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369 ms

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88 ms

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94 ms

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102 ms

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42 ms

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500 ms

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371 ms

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667 ms

jquery.min.js

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28 ms

jquery-fancybox.js

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371 ms

jquery-swiper.js

jquery-swiper.js

570 ms

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570 ms

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201 ms

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58 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

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569 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

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621 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

622 ms

index.js

index.js

851 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

57 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

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43 ms

fbevents.js

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111 ms

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gtm.js

110 ms

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197 ms

gtm.js

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99 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

149 ms

sbi-sprite.png

sbi-sprite.png

378 ms

siteHeader.jpg

siteHeader.jpg

378 ms

oceansResearchLogo01.png

oceansResearchLogo01.png

417 ms

bodyHome.jpg

bodyHome.jpg

707 ms

field-research.jpg

field-research.jpg

377 ms

showreel01Slide02.jpg

showreel01Slide02.jpg

941 ms

showreel01Slide04.jpg

showreel01Slide04.jpg

693 ms

placeholder.png

placeholder.png

693 ms

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47 ms

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fa-solid-900.woff

95 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

98 ms

CktI1_VKhvU

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267 ms

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539 ms

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46 ms

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41 ms

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18 ms

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34 ms

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58 ms

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267 ms

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124 ms

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71 ms

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35 ms

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99 ms

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102 ms

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87 ms

Create

Create

21 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

print.css

print.css

123 ms

c.gif

c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

oceans-research.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

oceans-research.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

oceans-research.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 Oceans-research.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 Oceans-research.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

oceans-research.com

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