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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

researchquest.org

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Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

153 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Researchquest.org page load time and found that the first response time was 153 ms and then it took 1.7 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

researchquest.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

researchquest.org

153 ms

researchquest.org

327 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

common.css

77 ms

jquery.js

286 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Researchquest.org, 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (492 ms) belongs to the original domain Researchquest.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

517.5 kB

After Optimization

442.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Researchquest.org main page is 517.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 367.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 6.5 kB, which is 18% 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 26.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 367.1 kB
  • After minification 367.1 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. Research Quest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 103.8 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 45.9 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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. Researchquest.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (14%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Research Quest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

researchquest.org

researchquest.org

153 ms

researchquest.org

researchquest.org

327 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

common.css

common.css

77 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

286 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

196 ms

e3b6fb1827.js

e3b6fb1827.js

79 ms

form.js

form.js

140 ms

js

js

72 ms

background.png

background.png

445 ms

rq-logo.png

rq-logo.png

68 ms

request.png

request.png

69 ms

nhmu-logo.png

nhmu-logo.png

134 ms

ceratopsians-icon.png

ceratopsians-icon.png

135 ms

arch-icon.png

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197 ms

uinta-icon.png

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202 ms

cleveland-icon.png

cleveland-icon.png

200 ms

epic.png

epic.png

199 ms

create-account-icon.png

create-account-icon.png

200 ms

get-started-icon.png

get-started-icon.png

266 ms

curriculum-icon.png

curriculum-icon.png

265 ms

faq-icon.png

faq-icon.png

267 ms

homeschool-icon.png

homeschool-icon.png

268 ms

checkmark.png

checkmark.png

270 ms

footer-nhmu-logo.png

footer-nhmu-logo.png

292 ms

uen-white.png

uen-white.png

329 ms

epic-logo.png

epic-logo.png

333 ms

uofu.png

uofu.png

331 ms

ajax_data_layer.php

ajax_data_layer.php

336 ms

top.jpg

top.jpg

396 ms

ceratopsians.jpg

ceratopsians.jpg

363 ms

archaeology.jpg

archaeology.jpg

392 ms

uinta.jpg

uinta.jpg

393 ms

cleveland.jpg

cleveland.jpg

397 ms

fungi.jpg

fungi.jpg

401 ms

teacher-student.jpg

teacher-student.jpg

430 ms

register.jpg

register.jpg

424 ms

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435 ms

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447 ms

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492 ms

Accessibility Review

researchquest.org accessibility score

84

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

researchquest.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

researchquest.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Researchquest.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 Researchquest.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

researchquest.org

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