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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

gotscience.org

Science Connected Magazine - Science Literacy, Education, Communication

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

755 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

809 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gotscience.org page load time and found that the first response time was 755 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gotscience.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.337

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gotscience.org

755 ms

js

197 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

179 ms

esu-styles.css

200 ms

layout.css

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gotscience.org, 62% (39 requests) were made to Secureservercdn.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (755 ms) belongs to the original domain Gotscience.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

754.0 kB

After Optimization

499.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gotscience.org main page is 754.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 299.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 210.8 kB

  • Original 241.4 kB
  • After minification 229.1 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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. 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 210.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 299.3 kB
  • After minification 265.3 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, Got Science needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 163.3 kB
  • After minification 163.3 kB
  • After compression 158.5 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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. Gotscience.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (74%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Got Science. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gotscience.org

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755 ms

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197 ms

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179 ms

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200 ms

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219 ms

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203 ms

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209 ms

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200 ms

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200 ms

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214 ms

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284 ms

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375 ms

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376 ms

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95 ms

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121 ms

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Accessibility Review

gotscience.org accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

gotscience.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gotscience.org SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Gotscience.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 Gotscience.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

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