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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

discover.lib.umn.edu

Archives and Special Collections | University of Minnesota Libraries

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Discover Lib Umn content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about discover.lib.umn.edu

The University of Minnesota Libraries’ Department of Archives and Special Collections (ASC) collects and preserves an amazing array of materials that support interdisciplinary research.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discover.lib.umn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 199 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

discover.lib.umn.edu performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discover.lib.umn.edu

199 ms

special

78 ms

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37 ms

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39 ms

fdlp-emblem-bw.svg

597 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Discover.lib.umn.edu, 85% (23 requests) were made to Lib.umn.edu and 4% (1 request) were made to Static.lib.umn.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) relates to the external source Static.lib.umn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discover.lib.umn.edu main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 56.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 235.2 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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, Discover Lib Umn needs image optimization as it can save up to 235.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 14.8 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. Discover.lib.umn.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Lib Umn. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

discover.lib.umn.edu

discover.lib.umn.edu

199 ms

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special

78 ms

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37 ms

css_yvdWCcKbsKEkDIu59JgeTp-Bu5slGmxlJL4_9ee43mc.css

css_yvdWCcKbsKEkDIu59JgeTp-Bu5slGmxlJL4_9ee43mc.css

39 ms

fdlp-emblem-bw.svg

fdlp-emblem-bw.svg

597 ms

12257

12257

465 ms

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267 ms

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395 ms

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404 ms

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429 ms

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429 ms

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403 ms

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449 ms

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449 ms

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429 ms

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451 ms

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455 ms

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510 ms

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509 ms

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458 ms

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508 ms

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528 ms

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529 ms

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528 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

232 ms

Accessibility Review

discover.lib.umn.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

discover.lib.umn.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

discover.lib.umn.edu SEO score

98

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 Discover.lib.umn.edu 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 Discover.lib.umn.edu 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

discover.lib.umn.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Discover Lib Umn. 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: