Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ncgas.org

National Center for Genome Analysis Support: Indiana University

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

847 ms

ncgas.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ncgas.org homepage info - get ready to check Ncgas best content right away, or after learning these important things about ncgas.org

National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) is a collaborative project between the lead institution, Indiana University (IU), and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) at Carnegie Mellon ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncgas.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 4.7 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

ncgas.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,180 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncgas.org

2420 ms

style.css

163 ms

icon-font.css

128 ms

iu-framework.min.css

191 ms

brand.min.css

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Ncgas.org, 32% (13 requests) were made to Assets.iu.edu and 12% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncgas.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Ncgas.org main page is 1.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 4.8 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 28.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Ncgas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 556 B

  • Original 33.0 kB
  • After minification 33.0 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 56.1 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Ncgas.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (46%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncgas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ncgas.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ncgas.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ncgas.org SEO score

100

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

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 Ncgas.org 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 Ncgas.org 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 data is detected on the main page of Ncgas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: