Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciencereview.berkeley.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 4.4 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

sciencereview.berkeley.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sciencereview.berkeley.edu

78 ms

berkeleysciencereview.com

1528 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

16 ms

CWPPoll.css

21 ms

JqueryUi.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 178 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sciencereview.berkeley.edu, 16% (28 requests) were made to Berkeleysciencereview.com and 12% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Berkeleysciencereview.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (22%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Sciencereview.berkeley.edu main page is 4.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 125.9 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 96.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB

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. Sciencereview Berkeley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 518.3 kB

  • Original 746.6 kB
  • After minification 626.2 kB
  • After compression 228.3 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 518.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 380.4 kB

  • Original 446.0 kB
  • After minification 384.8 kB
  • After compression 65.7 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. Sciencereview.berkeley.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 380.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (38%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

105

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sciencereview Berkeley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sciencereview.berkeley.edu SEO score

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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 Sciencereview.berkeley.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 Sciencereview.berkeley.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 data is detected on the main page of Sciencereview Berkeley. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: