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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

scicomm.plos.org

PLOS SciComm - A forum for practitioners and readers of science to explore the art and science of science communication

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

770 ms

Page Rendered

442 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scicomm.plos.org page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scicomm.plos.org performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scicomm.plos.org

166 ms

scicomm.plos.org

74 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

24 ms

style.min.css

140 ms

orcid.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Scicomm.plos.org, 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (206 ms) belongs to the original domain Scicomm.plos.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 492.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Scicomm.plos.org main page is 3.4 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. 75% 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. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 204.3 kB

  • Original 278.1 kB
  • After minification 249.1 kB
  • After compression 73.9 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. 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 204.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 287.9 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Sci Comm PLOS images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (43%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sci Comm PLOS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scicomm.plos.org

scicomm.plos.org

166 ms

scicomm.plos.org

scicomm.plos.org

74 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

24 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

140 ms

orcid.css

orcid.css

45 ms

main_7b925913.css

main_7b925913.css

206 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

149 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

169 ms

orcid.js

orcid.js

68 ms

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

88 ms

css

css

30 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

111 ms

slick.js

slick.js

111 ms

main_7b925913.js

main_7b925913.js

153 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

138 ms

logo-sea.svg

logo-sea.svg

66 ms

Scicomm-Blog-header_3.jpg

Scicomm-Blog-header_3.jpg

70 ms

science-1029385_1280-1024x682.jpg

science-1029385_1280-1024x682.jpg

68 ms

Paleoart-SantaElina-PRSB-JO-1024x680.jpg

Paleoart-SantaElina-PRSB-JO-1024x680.jpg

68 ms

Picture1.jpg

Picture1.jpg

67 ms

image-1.png

image-1.png

70 ms

image-3.png

image-3.png

100 ms

Banner-Image.png

Banner-Image.png

70 ms

Screen-Shot-2022-11-23-at-10.18.10-AM-1024x570.png

Screen-Shot-2022-11-23-at-10.18.10-AM-1024x570.png

112 ms

School-visit-presentation2-1024x576.jpg

School-visit-presentation2-1024x576.jpg

109 ms

Dictionary.jpg

Dictionary.jpg

108 ms

Lightning.jpg

Lightning.jpg

112 ms

Robert-Frost-e1652318419229.jpg

Robert-Frost-e1652318419229.jpg

109 ms

logo-white.svg

logo-white.svg

153 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

42 ms

u-4n0qyriQwlOrhSvowK_l52_wFZWMf8.woff

u-4n0qyriQwlOrhSvowK_l52_wFZWMf8.woff

83 ms

u-440qyriQwlOrhSvowK_l5-fCZK.woff

u-440qyriQwlOrhSvowK_l5-fCZK.woff

135 ms

fa-solid-900_333bae20.woff

fa-solid-900_333bae20.woff

136 ms

fa-regular-400_c4f508e7.woff

fa-regular-400_c4f508e7.woff

136 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

115 ms

Accessibility Review

scicomm.plos.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scicomm.plos.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

scicomm.plos.org SEO score

85

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

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 Scicomm.plos.org 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 Scicomm.plos.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

scicomm.plos.org

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