Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

hindawi.net

Publishing Open Access research journals & papers | Hindawi

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

451 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hindawi.net page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hindawi.net performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hindawi.com

47 ms

polyfill.min.js

36 ms

base.css

34 ms

video-js.css

29 ms

osano.js

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Hindawi.net, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Images.hindawi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (281 ms) relates to the external source Static.hotjar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Hindawi.net main page is 3.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 157.6 kB

  • Original 192.4 kB
  • After minification 192.1 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 157.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 174.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Hindawi images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 559.2 kB
  • After minification 559.2 kB
  • After compression 558.2 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. Hindawi.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (48%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hindawi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hindawi.net accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

SEO Factors

hindawi.net SEO score

79

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

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 Hindawi.net 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 Hindawi.net 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 Hindawi. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: