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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

refseek.com

RefSeek - Academic Search Engine

Page Load Speed

253 ms in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

154 ms

Page Rendered

83 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ref Seek content for Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about refseek.com

Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Refseek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 237 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

refseek.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

refseek.com

16 ms

www.refseek.com

53 ms

style_home.css

6 ms

samplequeries.js

8 ms

ga.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Refseek.com, 22% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (53 ms) belongs to the original domain Refseek.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.8 kB (25%)

Content Size

27.1 kB

After Optimization

20.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Refseek.com main page is 27.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 20.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 327 B, which is 11% 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 1.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 2.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 879 B

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. Refseek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ref Seek. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

refseek.com

refseek.com

16 ms

www.refseek.com

www.refseek.com

53 ms

style_home.css

style_home.css

6 ms

samplequeries.js

samplequeries.js

8 ms

ga.js

ga.js

29 ms

index_bg.gif

index_bg.gif

5 ms

index_logo.gif

index_logo.gif

5 ms

go_lg.gif

go_lg.gif

7 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

refseek.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

refseek.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

refseek.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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Refseek.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 Refseek.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

refseek.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ref Seek. 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: