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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

iucat.iu.edu

Welcome to the Indiana University Library Catalog (IUCAT) | Indiana University Libraries

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

Welcome to iucat.iu.edu homepage info - get ready to check IUCAT Iu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about iucat.iu.edu

IUCAT is Indiana University's online library catalog, which provides access to millions of items held by the IU Libraries statewide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iucat.iu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 2.1 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

iucat.iu.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.175

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iucat.iu.edu

73 ms

iucat.iu.edu

1071 ms

application.css

282 ms

application.js

450 ms

trident-large.png

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Iucat.iu.edu, 21% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.iu.edu and 14% (2 requests) were made to Assets.iu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Iucat.iu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 998.1 kB (72%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

383.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Iucat.iu.edu main page is 1.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 21.3 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 3.5 kB, which is 14% 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 18.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 723 B
  • After minification 723 B

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. IUCAT Iu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 979.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 376.0 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 979.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IUCAT Iu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

iucat.iu.edu

iucat.iu.edu

73 ms

iucat.iu.edu

iucat.iu.edu

1071 ms

application.css

application.css

282 ms

application.js

application.js

450 ms

trident-large.png

trident-large.png

124 ms

iu-sig-formal.svg

iu-sig-formal.svg

145 ms

downArrow.min.svg

downArrow.min.svg

78 ms

benton-sans-regular.woff

benton-sans-regular.woff

220 ms

benton-sans-cond-regular.woff

benton-sans-cond-regular.woff

235 ms

benton-sans-cond-bold.woff

benton-sans-cond-bold.woff

289 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

188 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

js

js

51 ms

Accessibility Review

iucat.iu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

iucat.iu.edu 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

iucat.iu.edu SEO score

88

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

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 Iucat.iu.edu 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 Iucat.iu.edu 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

iucat.iu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of IUCAT Iu. 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: