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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

67 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed References-etc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

references-etc.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

references-etc.com

1412 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

24 ms

jquery-ui.theme.css

48 ms

style2.0.css

67 ms

style.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original References-etc.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain References-etc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 129.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

663.9 kB

After Optimization

534.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of References-etc.com main page is 663.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 300.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 29.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 650 B

  • Original 256.5 kB
  • After minification 255.8 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. References Etc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 70.5 kB

  • Original 300.9 kB
  • After minification 300.9 kB
  • After compression 230.3 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 70.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 69.3 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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. References-etc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.0 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (75%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of References Etc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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1412 ms

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24 ms

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48 ms

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67 ms

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68 ms

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71 ms

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69 ms

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72 ms

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72 ms

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20 ms

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20 ms

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142 ms

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172 ms

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172 ms

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28 ms

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172 ms

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Accessibility Review

references-etc.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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

references-etc.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

references-etc.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 References-etc.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 References-etc.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 description is not detected on the main page of References Etc. 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: