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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

sagepub.com

SAGE Publications Inc | Home

Page Load Speed

535 ms in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

335 ms

Page Rendered

190 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sagepub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 525 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sagepub.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sagepub.com

10 ms

home

19 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

12 ms

css_ntCz7udh66prM85dlibL5cSl16uR5mFkmPYLsA2b56k.css

17 ms

css_F-alEc_wr3GDqh-MiFSc4l3Ph7H5DQXtVipXYKbsLzw.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sagepub.com, 87% (26 requests) were made to Us.sagepub.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (192 ms) relates to the external source Sadmin.brightcove.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.1 kB (35%)

Content Size

333.0 kB

After Optimization

217.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sagepub.com main page is 333.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 204.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 66.1 kB

  • Original 90.3 kB
  • After minification 87.7 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. 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 66.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 850 B
  • After minification 850 B

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. SAGE Pub images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 204.5 kB
  • After minification 185.4 kB
  • After compression 155.4 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 49.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 843 B

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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. Sagepub.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (63%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SAGE Pub. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sagepub.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

sagepub.com 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

SEO Factors

sagepub.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sagepub.com 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 Sagepub.com 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 data is detected on the main page of SAGE Pub. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: