Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

vis.org

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

71 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vis.org page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vis.org performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vis.org

218 ms

www.vis.org

379 ms

modernizr

70 ms

MasterPageStyles

269 ms

MsAjaxJs

529 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Vis.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (529 ms) belongs to the original domain Vis.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.3 kB (65%)

Content Size

149.1 kB

After Optimization

51.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Vis.org main page is 149.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 137.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 939 B, which is 11% 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 5.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Vis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 137.2 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 91.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (50%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vis.org accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

vis.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vis.org 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 Vis.org 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 Vis.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

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