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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

postdoc.com

Postdoc.com - Postdoc Job information for Ph.D. graduates!

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

964 ms

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Postdoc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 318 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

postdoc.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

postdoc.com

318 ms

bootstrap.css

48 ms

jquery-ui.css

46 ms

custom.css

61 ms

jquery.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Postdoc.com, 35% (14 requests) were made to Universityjobs.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (318 ms) belongs to the original domain Postdoc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

820.6 kB

After Optimization

616.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Postdoc.com main page is 820.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 516.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 41.9 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 8.9 kB, which is 17% 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 41.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 516.3 kB
  • After minification 404.3 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, Postdoc needs image optimization as it can save up to 112.0 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 218.3 kB
  • After minification 218.3 kB
  • After compression 170.5 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 47.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Postdoc.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (31%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Postdoc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

postdoc.com

postdoc.com

318 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

48 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

46 ms

custom.css

custom.css

61 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

69 ms

yii.js

yii.js

66 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

54 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

106 ms

jquery.selectbox-0.2.min.js

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81 ms

my.js

my.js

87 ms

my.css

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96 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

70 ms

css

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31 ms

css

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47 ms

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54 ms

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73 ms

logo.jpg

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189 ms

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40 ms

logo.png

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45 ms

li-bg.jpg

li-bg.jpg

44 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

44 ms

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46 ms

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125 ms

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74 ms

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61 ms

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60 ms

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28 ms

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33 ms

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42 ms

Accessibility Review

postdoc.com accessibility score

89

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

postdoc.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

postdoc.com 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 Postdoc.com 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 Postdoc.com 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

postdoc.com

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