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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

libguides.uky.edu

Research Guides by Subject - Research Guides @ UK - Research Guides at University of Kentucky

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

317 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

250 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Libguides.uky.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 317 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

libguides.uky.edu performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,570 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.579

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

libguides.uky.edu

317 ms

1.8.24_themes_base_jquery-ui.css

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

10 ms

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.css

84 ms

springshare.public.min.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Libguides.uky.edu, 13% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (450 ms) relates to the external source Lgimages.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.6 kB (75%)

Content Size

906.9 kB

After Optimization

229.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Libguides.uky.edu main page is 906.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 428.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 220.2 kB

  • Original 237.5 kB
  • After minification 209.7 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 27.8 kB, which is 12% 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 220.2 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 53.3 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. Obviously, Lib Guides UK Y needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 301.7 kB

  • Original 428.6 kB
  • After minification 428.6 kB
  • After compression 126.9 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 301.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 143.0 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 174.6 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. Libguides.uky.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 143.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (50%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lib Guides UK Y. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

libguides.uky.edu

libguides.uky.edu

317 ms

1.8.24_themes_base_jquery-ui.css

1.8.24_themes_base_jquery-ui.css

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

10 ms

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.css

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.css

84 ms

springshare.public.min.css

springshare.public.min.css

81 ms

springshare.common.min.css

springshare.common.min.css

82 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

3 ms

1.12.1_jquery.min.js

1.12.1_jquery.min.js

112 ms

1.9.2_jquery-ui.min.js

1.9.2_jquery-ui.min.js

189 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

7 ms

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.min.js

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.min.js

82 ms

springshare.common.min.js

springshare.common.min.js

131 ms

springshare.public.min.js

springshare.public.min.js

132 ms

sa.php

sa.php

148 ms

LibGuidesBanner70px-RG.png

LibGuidesBanner70px-RG.png

66 ms

askuslogosized.jpg

askuslogosized.jpg

450 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

login_process.php

login_process.php

204 ms

index_process.php

index_process.php

299 ms

index_process.php

index_process.php

98 ms

index_process.php

index_process.php

92 ms

index_process.php

index_process.php

95 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

libguides.uky.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

libguides.uky.edu best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

libguides.uky.edu SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

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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 Libguides.uky.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 Libguides.uky.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

libguides.uky.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lib Guides UK Y. 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: