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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

sciencedonors.com

Science Donors - Crowdfunding Science - Public Science Donations - Citizen Science

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

593 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciencedonors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 593 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sciencedonors.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciencedonors.com

593 ms

base.css

45 ms

style-default.css

116 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

78 ms

colorbox.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Sciencedonors.com, 24% (15 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (593 ms) belongs to the original domain Sciencedonors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

776.5 kB

After Optimization

521.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sciencedonors.com main page is 776.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 473.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 49.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

  • Original 473.5 kB
  • After minification 370.1 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. Obviously, Science Donors needs image optimization as it can save up to 103.4 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 198.6 kB
  • After minification 198.6 kB
  • After compression 112.4 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 86.2 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 43.1 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. Sciencedonors.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (53%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Donors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sciencedonors.com

sciencedonors.com

593 ms

base.css

base.css

45 ms

style-default.css

style-default.css

116 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

ddsmoothmenu.css

78 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

80 ms

buddypress.css

buddypress.css

89 ms

style-skin-6.css

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81 ms

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92 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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166 ms

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166 ms

verified.css

verified.css

166 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

global.js

global.js

187 ms

confirm.min.js

confirm.min.js

185 ms

widget.js

widget.js

186 ms

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themed-profiles.js

188 ms

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189 ms

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202 ms

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208 ms

bp-my-home.js

bp-my-home.js

238 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

203 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

205 ms

jquery.overlabel.min.js

jquery.overlabel.min.js

204 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

204 ms

cufon.aller.js

cufon.aller.js

303 ms

onLoad.js

onLoad.js

290 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

137 ms

tab.js

tab.js

212 ms

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page-curve-bg.png

156 ms

new-man-logo2.png

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166 ms

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67 ms

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175 ms

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168 ms

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157 ms

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165 ms

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166 ms

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168 ms

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172 ms

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173 ms

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173 ms

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174 ms

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216 ms

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175 ms

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182 ms

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Accessibility Review

sciencedonors.com accessibility score

80

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sciencedonors.com best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sciencedonors.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Sciencedonors.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 Sciencedonors.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

sciencedonors.com

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