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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 35

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

photonics.com

Photonics Spectra | Optics, Lasers, Imaging | News, Products, Events

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

461 ms

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About Website

Visit photonics.com now to see the best up-to-date Photonics content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about photonics.com

Photonics Spectra is a global photonics resource and magazine with news, products, research, and applications covering optics, lasers, imaging, and sensing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Photonics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

photonics.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

photonics.com

31 ms

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39 ms

www.photonics.com

814 ms

Photonics2.css

29 ms

icon_search_adapt.png

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Photonics.com, 11% (7 requests) were made to Events.photonics.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Podbean.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (814 ms) belongs to the original domain Photonics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Photonics.com main page is 2.0 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 30.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Photonics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 235 B

  • Original 344.5 kB
  • After minification 344.5 kB
  • After compression 344.3 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. Photonics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (18%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Photonics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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31 ms

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39 ms

www.photonics.com

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814 ms

Photonics2.css

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29 ms

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icon_search_adapt.png

42 ms

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40 ms

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logo_photonics_spectra.png

41 ms

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74 ms

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262 ms

75 ms

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70 ms

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70 ms

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148 ms

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58 ms

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57 ms

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65 ms

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82 ms

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124 ms

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127 ms

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133 ms

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151 ms

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148 ms

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148 ms

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145 ms

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155 ms

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156 ms

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171 ms

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174 ms

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174 ms

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186 ms

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174 ms

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182 ms

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178 ms

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207 ms

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280 ms

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273 ms

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260 ms

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253 ms

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148 ms

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168 ms

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168 ms

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167 ms

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169 ms

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167 ms

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192 ms

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173 ms

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171 ms

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16 ms

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10 ms

Photonics2_Print.css

Photonics2_Print.css

22 ms

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58 ms

Photonics2.js

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20 ms

WebResource.axd

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76 ms

Accessibility Review

photonics.com accessibility score

35

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

photonics.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

photonics.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Photonics.com 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 Photonics.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

photonics.com

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