Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

sciarc.edu

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Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

919 ms

Page Rendered

197 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciarc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 1.1 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

sciarc.edu performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciarc.edu

101 ms

www.sciarc.edu

73 ms

www.sciarc.edu

227 ms

app.css

12 ms

app.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Sciarc.edu, 11% (3 requests) were made to Storage.googleapis.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) relates to the external source Storage.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

860.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Sciarc.edu main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 588.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 6.4 kB, which is 16% 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 30.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 588.5 kB
  • After minification 588.5 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. SCI Arc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 141.3 kB

  • Original 391.6 kB
  • After minification 391.5 kB
  • After compression 250.3 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 141.3 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 84.5 kB
  • After minification 84.4 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. Sciarc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (65%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SCI Arc. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sciarc.edu accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

sciarc.edu 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sciarc.edu SEO score

80

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 Sciarc.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 Sciarc.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

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