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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

bugguide.net

Welcome to BugGuide.Net! - BugGuide.Net

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

bugguide.net screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bugguide.net homepage info - get ready to check Bug Guide best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about bugguide.net

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bugguide.net page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bugguide.net performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bugguide.net

127 ms

15740

115 ms

drupal.css

32 ms

bugguide.css

62 ms

bglogo.gif

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Bugguide.net, 5% (1 request) were made to Trends.ent.iastate.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (357 ms) relates to the external source Trends.ent.iastate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

197.8 kB

After Optimization

125.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bugguide.net main page is 197.8 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 96.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 20.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 61.9 kB
  • After minification 56.3 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. Bug Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 96.9 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 60.2 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 36.7 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Bugguide.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bug Guide. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

bugguide.net

bugguide.net

127 ms

15740

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115 ms

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drupal.css

32 ms

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bugguide.css

62 ms

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91 ms

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108 ms

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111 ms

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113 ms

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211 ms

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146 ms

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147 ms

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matomo.js

matomo.js

357 ms

Accessibility Review

bugguide.net accessibility score

48

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bugguide.net best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bugguide.net SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bugguide.net 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 Bugguide.net 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

bugguide.net

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