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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

beacon-center.org

BEACON | An NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to beacon-center.org homepage info - get ready to check BEACON Center best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about beacon-center.org

The BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action is an NSF Science and Technology Center headquartered at Michigan State University, with partners at North Carolina A&T State University, Univers...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beacon-center.org page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beacon-center.org performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beacon-center.org

781 ms

style.css

60 ms

style.min.css

77 ms

styles.css

63 ms

jquery.min.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Beacon-center.org, 33% (28 requests) were made to Www3.beacon-center.org and 21% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Www3.beacon-center.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

790.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Beacon-center.org main page is 1.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 445.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 147.0 kB
  • After minification 144.4 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 112.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 87.0 kB

  • Original 445.8 kB
  • After minification 358.9 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, BEACON Center needs image optimization as it can save up to 87.0 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 350.3 kB
  • After minification 350.3 kB
  • After compression 317.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 216 B

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 79.6 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. Beacon-center.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (65%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BEACON Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

beacon-center.org

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Accessibility Review

beacon-center.org accessibility score

78

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

beacon-center.org best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

beacon-center.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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Beacon-center.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 Beacon-center.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

beacon-center.org

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