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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

projectreference.com

Software Project Management Resources -- Columbia University

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

375 ms

Page Rendered

696 ms

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Project management resources: templates, samples, articles, software, lecture notes on software & general PM. Updated August 9, 2011. John Musser.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Projectreference.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 1.1 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

projectreference.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

projectreference.com

173 ms

projRef_style.css

71 ms

projRef_head.gif

119 ms

projRef_sub.gif

119 ms

buffer-hover-icon@2x.png

1 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Projectreference.com, 14% (1 request) were made to 0. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (173 ms) belongs to the original domain Projectreference.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.7 kB (72%)

Content Size

79.9 kB

After Optimization

22.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Projectreference.com main page is 79.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 76.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 54.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 170 B

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, Project Reference needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 95% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 473 B
  • After minification 473 B
  • After compression 414 B

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. Projectreference.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Project Reference. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

projectreference.com

projectreference.com

173 ms

projRef_style.css

projRef_style.css

71 ms

projRef_head.gif

projRef_head.gif

119 ms

projRef_sub.gif

projRef_sub.gif

119 ms

buffer-hover-icon@2x.png

buffer-hover-icon@2x.png

1 ms

projRef_bg.png

projRef_bg.png

62 ms

bg_head.png

bg_head.png

110 ms

Accessibility Review

projectreference.com accessibility score

86

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

projectreference.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

projectreference.com SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Projectreference.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 Projectreference.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

projectreference.com

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