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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

archiveofourown.org

Home | Archive of Our Own

Page Load Speed

653 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

477 ms

Page Rendered

134 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Archiveofourown.org page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 611 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

archiveofourown.org performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

archiveofourown.org

42 ms

01-core.css

55 ms

02-elements.css

32 ms

03-region-header.css

35 ms

04-region-dashboard.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Archiveofourown.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (171 ms) belongs to the original domain Archiveofourown.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

192.1 kB

After Optimization

157.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Archiveofourown.org main page is 192.1 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 117.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 20.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 13.0 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, Archive Of Our Own needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 50% 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 525 B

  • Original 117.0 kB
  • After minification 117.0 kB
  • After compression 116.4 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 684 B

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. Archiveofourown.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (89%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Archive Of Our Own. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

archiveofourown.org

archiveofourown.org

42 ms

01-core.css

01-core.css

55 ms

02-elements.css

02-elements.css

32 ms

03-region-header.css

03-region-header.css

35 ms

04-region-dashboard.css

04-region-dashboard.css

47 ms

05-region-main.css

05-region-main.css

38 ms

06-region-footer.css

06-region-footer.css

40 ms

07-interactions.css

07-interactions.css

50 ms

08-actions.css

08-actions.css

56 ms

09-roles-states.css

09-roles-states.css

57 ms

10-types-groups.css

10-types-groups.css

63 ms

11-group-listbox.css

11-group-listbox.css

62 ms

12-group-meta.css

12-group-meta.css

71 ms

13-group-blurb.css

13-group-blurb.css

69 ms

14-group-preface.css

14-group-preface.css

71 ms

15-group-comments.css

15-group-comments.css

75 ms

16-zone-system.css

16-zone-system.css

85 ms

17-zone-home.css

17-zone-home.css

84 ms

18-zone-searchbrowse.css

18-zone-searchbrowse.css

85 ms

19-zone-tags.css

19-zone-tags.css

86 ms

21-userstuff.css

21-userstuff.css

94 ms

22-system-messages.css

22-system-messages.css

105 ms

sandbox.css

sandbox.css

102 ms

livevalidation_standalone.js

livevalidation_standalone.js

105 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

20 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

26 ms

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

163 ms

jquery.livequery.min.js

jquery.livequery.min.js

164 ms

rails.js

rails.js

165 ms

application.js

application.js

168 ms

bootstrap-dropdown.min.js

bootstrap-dropdown.min.js

169 ms

jquery-shuffle.js

jquery-shuffle.js

166 ms

jquery.tokeninput.min.js

jquery.tokeninput.min.js

167 ms

jquery.trap.min.js

jquery.trap.min.js

170 ms

ao3modal.min.js

ao3modal.min.js

171 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

171 ms

filters.min.js

filters.min.js

171 ms

logo_42.png

logo_42.png

32 ms

red-ao3.png

red-ao3.png

33 ms

token_dispenser.json

token_dispenser.json

34 ms

main.js

main.js

10 ms

25-media-midsize.css

25-media-midsize.css

19 ms

26-media-narrow.css

26-media-narrow.css

19 ms

27-media-aural.css

27-media-aural.css

23 ms

28-media-print.css

28-media-print.css

17 ms

Accessibility Review

archiveofourown.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

archiveofourown.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

archiveofourown.org SEO score

100

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

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 Archiveofourown.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 Archiveofourown.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

archiveofourown.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Archive Of Our Own. 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: