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madsci.org

MadSciNet: The 24-hour exploding laboratory.

Page Load Speed

461 ms in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

302 ms

Page Rendered

100 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Madsci.org page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 402 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

madsci.org

59 ms

research.madsci.org

168 ms

style.css

20 ms

logo-madsci_research-312ee7d7deaea8e7.gif

25 ms

bg_modified.jpg

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Madsci.org, 92% (12 requests) were made to Research.madsci.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (168 ms) relates to the external source Research.madsci.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

178.3 kB

After Optimization

134.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Madsci.org main page is 178.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 137.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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 1.0 kB, which is 25% 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 3.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 124.5 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. Mad Sci images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 16.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Madsci.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mad Sci. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Madsci.org 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 Madsci.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mad Sci. 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: