Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

dhinitiative.org

Digital Humanities Initiative - Digital Humanities Initiative - Hamilton College

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

966 ms

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About Website

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The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) creates opportunities for new interdisciplinary models and methods of collaboration between faculty and students.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dhinitiative.org page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dhinitiative.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dhinitiative.org

76 ms

digital-humanities-initiative

491 ms

site.css

65 ms

jquery-ui.css

330 ms

navigation.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dhinitiative.org, 34% (15 requests) were made to Hamilton.edu and 20% (9 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (806 ms) relates to the external source Hamilton.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

448.4 kB

After Optimization

347.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Dhinitiative.org main page is 448.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 184.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 87.6 kB

  • Original 102.3 kB
  • After minification 101.1 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 87.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 184.6 kB
  • After minification 184.5 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. Dh Initiative images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 92.4 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 83.5 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Dhinitiative.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (51%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dh Initiative. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dhinitiative.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dhinitiative.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dhinitiative.org SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Dhinitiative.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 Dhinitiative.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Dh Initiative. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: