Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

brookings.edu

Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

brookings.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brookings.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brookings.edu performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brookings.edu

16 ms

www.brookings.edu

430 ms

VisitorIdentification.aspx

107 ms

visitorapi_95BD5E0A51631C2F33A3959474D6315D.js

10 ms

mbox_EEB5CFED333837B04EE5739559CF9175.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Brookings.edu, 4% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Brookingsinstitution.tt.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (430 ms) belongs to the original domain Brookings.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Brookings.edu main page is 2.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 136.2 kB

  • Original 178.7 kB
  • After minification 160.7 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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 136.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 80.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 974.1 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. Brookings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 773.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 404.8 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 773.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 272.0 kB

  • Original 327.8 kB
  • After minification 326.5 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Brookings.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 272.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (42%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brookings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

brookings.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

brookings.edu 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brookings.edu 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

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 Brookings.edu 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 Brookings.edu 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 Brookings. 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: