Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

scientificupdate.com

Scientific Update | Organic process chemistry training, consultancy & courses - Scientific Update - UK

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

606 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scientificupdate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scientificupdate.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scientificupdate.com

56 ms

www.scientificupdate.com

421 ms

css2

64 ms

api.js

67 ms

40b253c344.js

338 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Scientificupdate.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (421 ms) belongs to the original domain Scientificupdate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Scientificupdate.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 959.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 97.2 kB
  • After minification 97.2 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. 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 82.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 959.1 kB
  • After minification 957.8 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. Scientific Update images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 575.5 kB
  • After minification 575.5 kB
  • After compression 573.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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. Scientificupdate.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (75%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scientific Update. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scientificupdate.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scientificupdate.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

scientificupdate.com 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

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 Scientificupdate.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 Scientificupdate.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scientific Update. 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: