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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

herbarium.usu.edu

Herbarium | USU

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

292 ms

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The Utah State University Intermountain Herbarium maintains specimen databases, develops interactive identification tools for the flora of the region, and stimulates interest in the region's flora by ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herbarium.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 3 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

herbarium.usu.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value71.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.374

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

herbarium.usu.edu

2187 ms

style_ie.css

155 ms

mm_menu.js

255 ms

wordmark_top.gif

56 ms

spacer.gif

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Herbarium.usu.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Herbarium.usu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.7 kB (65%)

Content Size

111.5 kB

After Optimization

38.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Herbarium.usu.edu main page is 111.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 53.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 53.7 kB
  • After minification 50.0 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. 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 44.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19 B

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 6.2 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. Herbarium USU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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 25.0 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 570 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. Herbarium.usu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (85%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herbarium USU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

herbarium.usu.edu

herbarium.usu.edu

2187 ms

style_ie.css

style_ie.css

155 ms

mm_menu.js

mm_menu.js

255 ms

wordmark_top.gif

wordmark_top.gif

56 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

53 ms

global-nav.jpg

global-nav.jpg

54 ms

wordmark_bottom.gif

wordmark_bottom.gif

104 ms

search.gif

search.gif

105 ms

HomeSlice.gif

HomeSlice.gif

103 ms

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left_nav_r2_c1.gif

105 ms

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GeneralInfoSlice.gif

106 ms

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105 ms

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154 ms

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155 ms

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155 ms

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155 ms

ResourcesSlice.gif

ResourcesSlice.gif

156 ms

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154 ms

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204 ms

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204 ms

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206 ms

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206 ms

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ClassesSlice.gif

207 ms

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207 ms

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ExternalSlice.gif

254 ms

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left_nav_r18_c1.gif

254 ms

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UndergradSlice.gif

255 ms

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254 ms

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calochnu.gif

255 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

HomeSlice_f2.gif

HomeSlice_f2.gif

53 ms

GeneralInfoSlice_f3.gif

GeneralInfoSlice_f3.gif

53 ms

HoldingsSlice_f4.gif

HoldingsSlice_f4.gif

53 ms

ProjectsSlice_f5.gif

ProjectsSlice_f5.gif

54 ms

ResourcesSlice_f6.gif

ResourcesSlice_f6.gif

54 ms

WebManualSlice_f7.gif

WebManualSlice_f7.gif

54 ms

FungiFactsSlice_f8.gif

FungiFactsSlice_f8.gif

102 ms

ClassesSlice_f9.gif

ClassesSlice_f9.gif

105 ms

ExternalSlice_f10.gif

ExternalSlice_f10.gif

103 ms

UndergradSlice_f11.gif

UndergradSlice_f11.gif

104 ms

Accessibility Review

herbarium.usu.edu accessibility score

92

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

herbarium.usu.edu 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

herbarium.usu.edu 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Herbarium.usu.edu 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 Herbarium.usu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

herbarium.usu.edu

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