Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

swfsc.noaa.gov

Southwest Fisheries Science Center | NOAA Fisheries

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

836 ms

Page Rendered

457 ms

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About Website

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Conducting scientific research to ensure that the region's marine and anadromous fish, marine mammal, marine turtle and invertebrate populations remain at healthy and sustainable levels, as funct...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swfsc.noaa.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

swfsc.noaa.gov performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.2

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southwest-fisheries-science-center

274 ms

align.module.css

18 ms

fieldgroup.module.css

37 ms

container-inline.module.css

41 ms

clearfix.module.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Swfsc.noaa.gov, 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (274 ms) relates to the external source Fisheries.noaa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 502.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Swfsc.noaa.gov 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 167.1 kB

  • Original 197.3 kB
  • After minification 150.0 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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 47.2 kB, which is 24% 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 167.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 219.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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, Swfsc NOAA needs image optimization as it can save up to 219.5 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 107.8 kB

  • Original 272.2 kB
  • After minification 262.7 kB
  • After compression 164.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 107.8 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 59.7 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. Swfsc.noaa.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (82%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Swfsc NOAA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

swfsc.noaa.gov accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

swfsc.noaa.gov 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

swfsc.noaa.gov SEO score

97

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