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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

journal.code4lib.org

The Code4Lib Journal

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

616 ms

Resources Loaded

736 ms

Page Rendered

158 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Journal.code4lib.org page load time and found that the first response time was 616 ms and then it took 894 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

journal.code4lib.org performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

journal.code4lib.org

616 ms

style.css

26 ms

styles.css

25 ms

jquery.js

85 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Journal.code4lib.org, 15% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Licensebuttons.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (616 ms) belongs to the original domain Journal.code4lib.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.6 kB (63%)

Content Size

183.7 kB

After Optimization

67.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Journal.code4lib.org main page is 183.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 151.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 10.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 3.6 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, Journal Code4 Lib needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 95.7 kB

  • Original 151.1 kB
  • After minification 149.2 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 95.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Journal.code4lib.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (42%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Journal Code4 Lib. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

journal.code4lib.org

journal.code4lib.org

616 ms

style.css

style.css

26 ms

styles.css

styles.css

25 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

85 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

36 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

34 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

23 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

15 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

50 ms

logo.png

logo.png

20 ms

80x15.png

80x15.png

24 ms

print.css

print.css

14 ms

Accessibility Review

journal.code4lib.org accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

journal.code4lib.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

journal.code4lib.org 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 Journal.code4lib.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 Journal.code4lib.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

journal.code4lib.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Journal Code4 Lib. 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: