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physics.leidenuniv.nl

Leiden Institute of Physics - Leiden University

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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Research at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is foundational and curiosity driven. All our scientists share a desire to increase the knowledge of the world around us, in an open atmosphere of in...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Physics.leidenuniv.nl page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

physics.leidenuniv.nl performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

physics.leidenuniv.nl

1050 ms

jquery.min.js

448 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

195 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

196 ms

caption.js

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Physics.leidenuniv.nl, 22% (15 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Physics.leidenuniv.nl.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 596.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Physics.leidenuniv.nl main page is 2.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 19.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 312.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 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. Obviously, Physics Leiden Univ needs image optimization as it can save up to 312.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 161.1 kB

  • Original 238.2 kB
  • After minification 226.1 kB
  • After compression 77.1 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 161.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. Physics.leidenuniv.nl needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (52%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Physics Leiden Univ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

physics.leidenuniv.nl SEO score

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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 Physics.leidenuniv.nl 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 Physics.leidenuniv.nl 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 description is not detected on the main page of Physics Leiden Univ. 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: