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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

turfgrass.psu.edu

Center for Turfgrass Science — Research — Department of Plant Science

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

680 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Turfgrass.psu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 52 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

turfgrass.psu.edu performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.146

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

turfgrass.psu.edu

52 ms

turf

114 ms

js

61 ms

gtm.js

127 ms

default.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Turfgrass.psu.edu, 35% (18 requests) were made to Plantscience.psu.edu and 22% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (543 ms) relates to the external source Assets.agsci.psu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

953.4 kB

After Optimization

820.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Turfgrass.psu.edu main page is 953.4 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. 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 772.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 91.6 kB

  • Original 106.1 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 32.7 kB, which is 31% 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 91.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 772.6 kB
  • After minification 763.4 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. Turfgrass Psu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 21.8 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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. Turfgrass.psu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (53%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Turfgrass Psu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

turfgrass.psu.edu

turfgrass.psu.edu

52 ms

turf

turf

114 ms

js

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61 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

127 ms

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default.css

40 ms

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faceted-jquery.min.css

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119 ms

faceted-edit.min.css

faceted-edit.min.css

118 ms

featherlight.min.css

featherlight.min.css

167 ms

agsci.common.css

agsci.common.css

167 ms

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psu-agr-logo-rev-single.png

271 ms

inspectlet.js

inspectlet.js

117 ms

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card-placeholder.jpg

392 ms

theme.js

theme.js

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all.css

100 ms

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PSU_AGR_RGB_2C.svg

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css

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collect

34 ms

collect

collect

127 ms

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agsci.common.print.css

138 ms

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Accessibility Review

turfgrass.psu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

turfgrass.psu.edu 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

turfgrass.psu.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Turfgrass.psu.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 Turfgrass.psu.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

turfgrass.psu.edu

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