Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thevirtualrealityawards.com

Simian Scientific Virtual Reality - Conduct Science

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

429 ms

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About Website

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Simian Virtual Reality is a web-based publisher for scientific experiments. Your experiment is built for you, the data is generated and outputted to you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thevirtualrealityawards.com page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thevirtualrealityawards.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value47.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value56,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value76.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thevirtualrealityawards.com

200 ms

598 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

562 ms

font-awesome.min.css

510 ms

fullmain.min.css

579 ms

Our browser made a total of 189 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thevirtualrealityawards.com, 65% (123 requests) were made to Conductscience.com and 10% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Checkout.razorpay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thevirtualrealityawards.com main page is 2.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 444.7 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 627.6 kB, which is 59% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 738.7 kB
  • After minification 699.3 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. The Virtual Reality Awards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 251.8 kB
  • After minification 251.8 kB
  • After compression 225.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 26.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 488.3 kB
  • After minification 478.3 kB
  • After compression 412.3 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. Thevirtualrealityawards.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 139 (87%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Virtual Reality Awards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 89 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 52 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thevirtualrealityawards.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thevirtualrealityawards.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thevirtualrealityawards.com SEO score

90

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

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 Thevirtualrealityawards.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 Thevirtualrealityawards.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 data is detected on the main page of The Virtual Reality Awards. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: