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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

scolma.org

Home – Scolma.org – UK Libraries & Archives Group on Africa

Page Load Speed

621 ms in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

345 ms

Page Rendered

177 ms

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About Website

Visit scolma.org now to see the best up-to-date Scolma content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about scolma.org

We are a forum for librarians, archivists and others concerned with African studies materials in Libraries and Archives in the United Kingdom.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scolma.org page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 522 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scolma.org performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scolma.org

99 ms

template.css

29 ms

green.css

32 ms

css

21 ms

prettyPhoto.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Scolma.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (138 ms) belongs to the original domain Scolma.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.6 kB (39%)

Content Size

407.3 kB

After Optimization

247.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scolma.org main page is 407.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 224.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 55.5 kB

  • Original 69.5 kB
  • After minification 64.3 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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 55.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 95.2 kB

  • Original 224.8 kB
  • After minification 129.6 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, Scolma needs image optimization as it can save up to 95.2 kB or 42% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 93.5 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 86.7 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. Scolma.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (52%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scolma. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scolma.org

scolma.org

99 ms

template.css

template.css

29 ms

green.css

green.css

32 ms

css

css

21 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

31 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

58 ms

styles.css

styles.css

58 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

25 ms

jscolor.js

jscolor.js

56 ms

multi_inputs.js

multi_inputs.js

78 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

11 ms

slides.min.jquery.js

slides.min.jquery.js

76 ms

jquery.plugins.js

jquery.plugins.js

77 ms

counter.js

counter.js

67 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

78 ms

main-01.png

main-01.png

77 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

69 ms

content-01.png

content-01.png

58 ms

scolma-logo.png

scolma-logo.png

73 ms

keren_public_library.jpg

keren_public_library.jpg

105 ms

ABRD-Screenshot.png

ABRD-Screenshot.png

122 ms

news-40x40.jpg

news-40x40.jpg

138 ms

footer.png

footer.png

58 ms

arrow-list.gif

arrow-list.gif

56 ms

t.php

t.php

101 ms

EJRVQgYoZZY2vCFuvAFWzrk.woff

EJRVQgYoZZY2vCFuvAFWzrk.woff

81 ms

EJRSQgYoZZY2vCFuvAnt66qSVy0.woff

EJRSQgYoZZY2vCFuvAnt66qSVy0.woff

122 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

26 ms

Accessibility Review

scolma.org accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scolma.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

scolma.org SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scolma.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Scolma.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

scolma.org

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