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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

theburkelab.org

The Burke Lab :: Plant Evolutionary Genetics @ UGA

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

94 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Burke Lab content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theburkelab.org

Research and graduate studies in plant evolutionary genetics and genomics at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theburkelab.org page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theburkelab.org performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theburkelab.org

256 ms

www.theburkelab.org

2065 ms

layout.css

81 ms

custom.css

158 ms

style.min.css

233 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Theburkelab.org, 20% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Theburkelab.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

221.1 kB

After Optimization

202.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theburkelab.org main page is 221.1 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 160.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. 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 13.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 160.8 kB
  • After minification 158.7 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. The Burke Lab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. Theburkelab.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Burke Lab. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

theburkelab.org

theburkelab.org

256 ms

www.theburkelab.org

www.theburkelab.org

2065 ms

layout.css

layout.css

81 ms

custom.css

custom.css

158 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

233 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

160 ms

sunflower.jpg

sunflower.jpg

216 ms

sunflower_field.jpg

sunflower_field.jpg

365 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

theburkelab.org accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

theburkelab.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

theburkelab.org SEO score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Theburkelab.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 Theburkelab.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Burke Lab. 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: