Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

seedbiology.osu.edu

Department of Horticulture and Crop Science | HCS

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

729 ms

Page Rendered

205 ms

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About Website

Welcome to seedbiology.osu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Seedbiology Osu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about seedbiology.osu.edu

Seed biology is the website of The Ohio State Department of Horticulture and Crop Science's Seed Biology Program. This is a multi-disciplinary program involving different aspects of seed science.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seedbiology.osu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 934 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

seedbiology.osu.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,860 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seedbiology.osu.edu

254 ms

mm_menu.js

118 ms

spacer.gif

34 ms

bg%20slices_r1_c1.jpg

34 ms

bg%20slices_r1_c6.jpg

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Seedbiology.osu.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (254 ms) belongs to the original domain Seedbiology.osu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.9 kB (42%)

Content Size

339.6 kB

After Optimization

196.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Seedbiology.osu.edu main page is 339.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 283.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 21.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 97.6 kB

  • Original 283.9 kB
  • After minification 186.2 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. Obviously, Seedbiology Osu needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.6 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 24.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Seedbiology Osu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

seedbiology.osu.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

seedbiology.osu.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

seedbiology.osu.edu SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Seedbiology.osu.edu 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 Seedbiology.osu.edu 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 Seedbiology Osu. 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: