Report Summary

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issg.org

IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG)

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

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The Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) is a global network of scientific and policy experts on invasive species, organized under the auspices of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the Inte...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Issg.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

issg.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

issg.org

1802 ms

menu.css

381 ms

corporatestyle.css

566 ms

javascripts.js

382 ms

pop-closeup.js

383 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Issg.org, 14% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Issg.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (29%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Issg.org main page is 3.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 103.5 kB

  • Original 143.6 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 103.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 226.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. ISSG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 369.0 kB

  • Original 564.7 kB
  • After minification 559.1 kB
  • After compression 195.7 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 369.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 313.8 kB

  • Original 369.7 kB
  • After minification 364.3 kB
  • After compression 55.9 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. Issg.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 313.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (38%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ISSG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

issg.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Issg.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Issg.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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