Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

midcdmz.nrel.gov

NREL: Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center (MIDC) Home Page

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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About Website

Visit midcdmz.nrel.gov now to see the best up-to-date MIDC Dmz NREL content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about midcdmz.nrel.gov

The Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center provides Irradiance and Meterological data from several stations in the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midcdmz.nrel.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

midcdmz.nrel.gov performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.026

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

midcdmz.nrel.gov

252 ms

gtm.js

318 ms

jquery-ui.css

282 ms

bootstrap.min.css

296 ms

nrel.complete.min.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Midcdmz.nrel.gov, 20% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 18% (9 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Midcdmz.nrel.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.5 kB (29%)

Content Size

189.9 kB

After Optimization

134.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Midcdmz.nrel.gov main page is 189.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 63.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. 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 16.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 42.8 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. MIDC Dmz NREL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.7 kB
  • After compression 62.3 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

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 52.0 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. Midcdmz.nrel.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (69%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MIDC Dmz NREL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

midcdmz.nrel.gov accessibility score

92

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

midcdmz.nrel.gov 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

midcdmz.nrel.gov SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Midcdmz.nrel.gov 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 Midcdmz.nrel.gov 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 MIDC Dmz NREL. 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: