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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

publish.csiro.au

CSIRO PUBLISHING - Excellence in Science Publishing

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

654 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

251 ms

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About Website

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CSIRO PUBLISHING, Australia's leading publisher of quality scientific, technical and health journals, books, multimedia and magazines

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publish.csiro.au page load time and found that the first response time was 654 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

publish.csiro.au performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

publish.csiro.au

654 ms

www.publish.csiro.au

1154 ms

foundation.min.css

217 ms

foundation-icons.css

434 ms

custom.css

649 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Publish.csiro.au, 14% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Publish.csiro.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.3 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Publish.csiro.au main page is 2.7 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 16.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 15% 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 14.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 364.1 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Obviously, Publish needs image optimization as it can save up to 364.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

  • Original 139.6 kB
  • After minification 139.4 kB
  • After compression 138.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Publish.csiro.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (46%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Publish. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

publish.csiro.au

publish.csiro.au

654 ms

www.publish.csiro.au

www.publish.csiro.au

1154 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

217 ms

foundation-icons.css

foundation-icons.css

434 ms

custom.css

custom.css

649 ms

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styles.css

862 ms

okayNav.min.css

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865 ms

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55 ms

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71 ms

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79 ms

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125 ms

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47 ms

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1177 ms

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971 ms

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1358 ms

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970 ms

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1175 ms

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navigation.js

1184 ms

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205 ms

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203 ms

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323 ms

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323 ms

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501 ms

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1744 ms

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500 ms

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1744 ms

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677 ms

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893 ms

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1109 ms

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1325 ms

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1541 ms

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1757 ms

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302 ms

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142 ms

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58 ms

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71 ms

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147 ms

Accessibility Review

publish.csiro.au accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

publish.csiro.au 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

publish.csiro.au SEO score

99

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 Publish.csiro.au 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 Publish.csiro.au 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

publish.csiro.au

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