Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% 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

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

sciencebuddies.org

Science Fair Project Ideas, Answers, & Tools

Page Load Speed

851 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

656 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciencebuddies.org page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 821 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sciencebuddies.org performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciencebuddies.org

30 ms

sciencebuddies.org

51 ms

www.sciencebuddies.org

332 ms

js

107 ms

print-logo.png

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Sciencebuddies.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Assets.pinterest.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Tags.sciencebuddies.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (332 ms) belongs to the original domain Sciencebuddies.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 354.1 kB (45%)

Content Size

789.4 kB

After Optimization

435.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Sciencebuddies.org main page is 789.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 447.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 342.7 kB

  • Original 447.7 kB
  • After minification 423.0 kB
  • After compression 105.0 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. 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 342.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 261.5 kB
  • After minification 250.2 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. Science Buddies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 58.3 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 170 B

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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. Sciencebuddies.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Buddies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sciencebuddies.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sciencebuddies.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sciencebuddies.org SEO score

96

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

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 Sciencebuddies.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 Sciencebuddies.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

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