Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

hicore.org

HICORE - Hawaii Initiative for Childhood Obesity Research and Education | Home

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

hicore.org screenshot

About Website

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The Hawaii Initiative for Childhood Obesity Research and Education (HICORE) provides collaborative and multi-disciplinary leadership in research and education on childhood obesity, physical activity a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hicore.org page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 1.2 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

hicore.org performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hicore.org

159 ms

reset.css

68 ms

screen.css

153 ms

jquery.min.js

9 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

325 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Hicore.org, 12% (3 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (825 ms) belongs to the original domain Hicore.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

612.8 kB

After Optimization

589.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Hicore.org main page is 612.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 502.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 14.0 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. 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 11.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 502.4 kB
  • After minification 492.5 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. HICORE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 90.5 kB
  • After minification 90.5 kB
  • After compression 89.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 740 B

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. Hicore.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 740 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (28%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HICORE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hicore.org accessibility score

90

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

hicore.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

SEO Factors

hicore.org SEO score

62

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hicore.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hicore.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 HICORE. 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: