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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gcsmus.org

SMUS – Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

388 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gcsmus.org homepage info - get ready to check Gc SMUS best content right away, or after learning these important things about gcsmus.org

GCSMUS, based at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin, Germany), is committed to developing and providing tools needed to tackle sustainable urban development issues.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcsmus.org page load time and found that the first response time was 388 ms and then it took 2.3 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

gcsmus.org performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcsmus.org

388 ms

gcsmus.org

625 ms

style.min.css

238 ms

cookieblocker.min.css

355 ms

slick.css

356 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Gcsmus.org, 4% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) belongs to the original domain Gcsmus.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

341.1 kB

After Optimization

268.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gcsmus.org main page is 341.1 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. Javascripts take 123.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 61.1 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 63.9 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 12.8 kB, which is 17% 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 61.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 110.9 kB
  • After minification 106.2 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. Gc SMUS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 123.7 kB
  • After minification 123.7 kB
  • After compression 117.8 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 886 B

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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. Gcsmus.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (32%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gc SMUS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gcsmus.org

gcsmus.org

388 ms

gcsmus.org

gcsmus.org

625 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

238 ms

cookieblocker.min.css

cookieblocker.min.css

355 ms

slick.css

slick.css

356 ms

index.css

index.css

358 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

29 ms

pcp-likes-public.js

pcp-likes-public.js

244 ms

jquery.ez-plus.js

jquery.ez-plus.js

342 ms

complianz.min.js

complianz.min.js

361 ms

index.js

index.js

718 ms

logo-desktop.svg

logo-desktop.svg

118 ms

logo-mobile.svg

logo-mobile.svg

122 ms

menu.svg

menu.svg

120 ms

close.svg

close.svg

123 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

190 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

236 ms

youtube.svg

youtube.svg

238 ms

Screenshot-2023-10-17-at-20.29.27.png

Screenshot-2023-10-17-at-20.29.27.png

497 ms

DAAD_exceed_Lang_RGB-01.png

DAAD_exceed_Lang_RGB-01.png

245 ms

Footer_Logo_TU.svg

Footer_Logo_TU.svg

309 ms

Footer_Logo_India.svg

Footer_Logo_India.svg

475 ms

Footer_Logo_Botswana.svg

Footer_Logo_Botswana.svg

355 ms

Footer_Logo_USP.svg

Footer_Logo_USP.svg

366 ms

Jost-Regular.87e1b90c.woff

Jost-Regular.87e1b90c.woff

502 ms

Jost-Medium.d1bdf3fc.woff

Jost-Medium.d1bdf3fc.woff

541 ms

Barlow-Regular.5e51c203.woff

Barlow-Regular.5e51c203.woff

573 ms

Accessibility Review

gcsmus.org accessibility score

94

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gcsmus.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gcsmus.org SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Gcsmus.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 Gcsmus.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

gcsmus.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gc SMUS. 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: