Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sciencechallenge.org

The RCSU Science Challenge | Faculty of Natural Sciences | Imperial College London

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

496 ms

sciencechallenge.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to sciencechallenge.org homepage info - get ready to check Science Challenge best content right away, or after learning these important things about sciencechallenge.org

The Royal College of Science Union's annual science communication competition, testing the ability of today's young and aspiring scientists.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciencechallenge.org page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sciencechallenge.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value36.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciencechallenge.org

158 ms

sciencechallenge.org

256 ms

fermedeleveil.com

267 ms

lifechurchmidwest.org

287 ms

biovert-protein.com

318 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sciencechallenge.org, 44% (39 requests) were made to Planethockeymag.com and 27% (24 requests) were made to Googleuserconten744564567657465sg75.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Planethockeymag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Sciencechallenge.org main page is 2.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 108.3 kB
  • After compression 53.1 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 62.1 kB or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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 Challenge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 168.3 kB

  • Original 663.1 kB
  • After minification 663.1 kB
  • After compression 494.8 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 168.3 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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. Sciencechallenge.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (23%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Challenge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sciencechallenge.org accessibility score

75

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

sciencechallenge.org best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sciencechallenge.org SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ID

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sciencechallenge.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Sciencechallenge.org main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Science Challenge. 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: