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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

muse.jhu.edu

Project MUSE

Page Load Speed

830 ms in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

407 ms

Page Rendered

335 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Muse.jhu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 742 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

muse.jhu.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,610 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

muse.jhu.edu

88 ms

installsearch.js

13 ms

detail.css

41 ms

jquery.js

55 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.1.min.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Muse.jhu.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (102 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 795.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Muse.jhu.edu main page is 1.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 94.8 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 71.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 155.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 856.9 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, MUSE Jhu needs image optimization as it can save up to 155.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 468.1 kB

  • Original 697.8 kB
  • After minification 693.0 kB
  • After compression 229.6 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 468.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

  • Original 119.0 kB
  • After minification 89.6 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. Muse.jhu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (40%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MUSE Jhu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

muse.jhu.edu

muse.jhu.edu

88 ms

installsearch.js

installsearch.js

13 ms

detail.css

detail.css

41 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

55 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.1.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.1.min.js

59 ms

jquery.selectbox-0.5.js

jquery.selectbox-0.5.js

30 ms

header.js

header.js

29 ms

jquery.qtip.min.js

jquery.qtip.min.js

31 ms

jquery.qtip2.css

jquery.qtip2.css

26 ms

home.css

home.css

45 ms

imagepager.css

imagepager.css

46 ms

slides.css

slides.css

34 ms

slides.min.jquery.js

slides.min.jquery.js

47 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

52 ms

muse.js

muse.js

46 ms

jquuery-ui-lightness.css

jquuery-ui-lightness.css

22 ms

feedback.css

feedback.css

17 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

102 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

20 ms

bkgd.gif

bkgd.gif

14 ms

header_bkgd_bottom.jpg

header_bkgd_bottom.jpg

15 ms

feedback-bg.jpg

feedback-bg.jpg

15 ms

logo.png

logo.png

16 ms

dark_header_bkgd.gif

dark_header_bkgd.gif

16 ms

search_bkgd.gif

search_bkgd.gif

35 ms

browse.gif

browse.gif

35 ms

search_go.gif

search_go.gif

36 ms

JOTMBlackCamera.jpg

JOTMBlackCamera.jpg

63 ms

RSHomePageSlide.jpg

RSHomePageSlide.jpg

60 ms

JHUP-MUS.JPG

JHUP-MUS.JPG

59 ms

SeriesCollections.jpg

SeriesCollections.jpg

57 ms

NewCommonsHomepageSlide.jpg

NewCommonsHomepageSlide.jpg

60 ms

eliot.gif

eliot.gif

62 ms

boxBottomGrad241-bg.gif

boxBottomGrad241-bg.gif

62 ms

boxBottomGrad300-bg.gif

boxBottomGrad300-bg.gif

61 ms

thumb.jpg

thumb.jpg

62 ms

thumb.jpg

thumb.jpg

76 ms

thumb.jpg

thumb.jpg

74 ms

jeucoversmall.jpg

jeucoversmall.jpg

72 ms

tencoversmall.jpg

tencoversmall.jpg

74 ms

cdrcoversmall.jpg

cdrcoversmall.jpg

75 ms

atcoversmall.jpg

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77 ms

sancoversmall.jpg

sancoversmall.jpg

76 ms

thumb.jpg

thumb.jpg

78 ms

footer_bkgd.gif

footer_bkgd.gif

79 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

80 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

80 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

80 ms

JOTMBlackCamera.jpg

JOTMBlackCamera.jpg

82 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

80 ms

pagination.jpg

pagination.jpg

81 ms

sh.7c7179124ea24ac6ba46caac.html

sh.7c7179124ea24ac6ba46caac.html

49 ms

collect

collect

52 ms

Accessibility Review

muse.jhu.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

muse.jhu.edu 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

muse.jhu.edu SEO score

80

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Muse.jhu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Muse.jhu.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

muse.jhu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MUSE Jhu. 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: