Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Basic Search

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

609 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de page load time and found that the first response time was 609 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

609 ms

www.base-search.net

1348 ms

bootstrap.min.css

429 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

439 ms

base.css

441 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de, 97% (37 requests) were made to Base-search.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Base-search.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 435.5 kB (61%)

Content Size

714.4 kB

After Optimization

278.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de main page is 714.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 287.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 27% 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 13.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 31.9 kB

  • Original 189.3 kB
  • After minification 157.4 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, BASE Ub Uni Bielefeld needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.9 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 205.8 kB

  • Original 287.0 kB
  • After minification 274.0 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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 205.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 183.9 kB

  • Original 220.4 kB
  • After minification 209.8 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 183.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (64%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BASE Ub Uni Bielefeld. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de 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 Base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de 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 BASE Ub Uni Bielefeld. 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: