Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

412 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

106 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vufind.uhls.org page load time and found that the first response time was 412 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vufind.uhls.org performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vufind.uhls.org

412 ms

;jsessionid=3F143595B460006C58D2ACC5388F961E

215 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

373 ms

googleMaps.js

149 ms

ToggleWidget.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vufind.uhls.org, 84% (16 requests) were made to Catalog.uhls.org and 11% (2 requests) were made to Uhls.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (526 ms) relates to the external source Catalog.uhls.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 539.9 kB (72%)

Content Size

749.5 kB

After Optimization

209.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Vufind.uhls.org main page is 749.5 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 603.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 11.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.2 kB, which is 27% 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 11.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 32.4 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. Obviously, Vufind Uhls needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 444.2 kB

  • Original 603.1 kB
  • After minification 530.9 kB
  • After compression 158.9 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 444.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 89.5 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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. Vufind.uhls.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (59%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vufind Uhls. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vufind.uhls.org accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

vufind.uhls.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

vufind.uhls.org SEO score

46

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Vufind.uhls.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 Vufind.uhls.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 Vufind Uhls. 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: