Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu

Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School | Boston College Law School Research

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

381 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

144 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 381 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu

381 ms

yui-min.js

9 ms

ir-style.css

184 ms

ir-custom.css

353 ms

ir-local.css

357 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu, 14% (6 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (776 ms) relates to the external source Bepress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.2 kB (76%)

Content Size

217.6 kB

After Optimization

52.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu main page is 217.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 182.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.4 kB, which is 19% 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 14.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 150.7 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 134.8 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (71%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Law Digital Commons Bc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Lawdigitalcommons.bc.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 Lawdigitalcommons.bc.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 Law Digital Commons Bc. 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: