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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 90% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

plaio.org

PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plaio.org page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plaio.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

174 ms

pkp.css

33 ms

common.css

52 ms

common.css

89 ms

compiled.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Plaio.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) belongs to the original domain Plaio.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 234.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

450.0 kB

After Optimization

216.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plaio.org main page is 450.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 303.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 2.5 kB, which is 11% 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 19.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 99.6 kB
  • After minification 79.4 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, PLA Io needs image optimization as it can save up to 20.2 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 189.5 kB

  • Original 303.0 kB
  • After minification 301.1 kB
  • After compression 113.5 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 189.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. Plaio.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (87%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PLA Io. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home

home

174 ms

pkp.css

pkp.css

33 ms

common.css

common.css

52 ms

common.css

common.css

89 ms

compiled.css

compiled.css

112 ms

sidebar.css

sidebar.css

111 ms

rightSidebar.css

rightSidebar.css

106 ms

sitestyle.css

sitestyle.css

111 ms

classicBlue.css

classicBlue.css

109 ms

journalStyleSheet.css

journalStyleSheet.css

109 ms

languageToggle.css

languageToggle.css

109 ms

jquery.tag-it.js

jquery.tag-it.js

138 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

137 ms

fontController.js

fontController.js

130 ms

general.js

general.js

136 ms

jqueryValidatorI18n.js

jqueryValidatorI18n.js

135 ms

Helper.js

Helper.js

115 ms

ObjectProxy.js

ObjectProxy.js

132 ms

Handler.js

Handler.js

136 ms

LinkActionRequest.js

LinkActionRequest.js

136 ms

Feature.js

Feature.js

135 ms

SiteHandler.js

SiteHandler.js

135 ms

UrlInDivHandler.js

UrlInDivHandler.js

135 ms

AutocompleteHandler.js

AutocompleteHandler.js

137 ms

ExtrasOnDemandHandler.js

ExtrasOnDemandHandler.js

178 ms

FormHandler.js

FormHandler.js

177 ms

AjaxFormHandler.js

AjaxFormHandler.js

147 ms

ClientFormHandler.js

ClientFormHandler.js

148 ms

GridHandler.js

GridHandler.js

175 ms

LinkActionHandler.js

LinkActionHandler.js

177 ms

SearchFormHandler.js

SearchFormHandler.js

177 ms

ReportGeneratorFormHandler.js

ReportGeneratorFormHandler.js

179 ms

LuceneAutocompleteHandler.js

LuceneAutocompleteHandler.js

178 ms

jquery.pkp.js

jquery.pkp.js

178 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

197 ms

jqueryUi.css

jqueryUi.css

198 ms

jquery.pnotify.default.css

jquery.pnotify.default.css

195 ms

loader.js

loader.js

73 ms

pnotify.css

pnotify.css

165 ms

notificationIcons.css

notificationIcons.css

141 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

58 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

52 ms

system.css

system.css

61 ms

journal.css

journal.css

62 ms

mastheadBkgdWhite.png

mastheadBkgdWhite.png

51 ms

homeHeaderTitleImage_en_US.jpg

homeHeaderTitleImage_en_US.jpg

54 ms

navItemBkgd.png

navItemBkgd.png

18 ms

font-down.png

font-down.png

17 ms

font-default.png

font-default.png

15 ms

font-up.png

font-up.png

18 ms

ColabReg.otf

ColabReg.otf

21 ms

ColabLig.otf

ColabLig.otf

16 ms

Accessibility Review

plaio.org accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

plaio.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

plaio.org SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Plaio.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 Plaio.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

plaio.org

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