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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ir.uiowa.edu

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

333 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

120 ms

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About Website

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Iowa Research Online (IRO) is a digital publishing and archiving service of the University of Iowa Libraries, created to increase the impact of scholarly and creative work at The University of Iowa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ir.uiowa.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 333 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ir.uiowa.edu performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.666

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ir.uiowa.edu

333 ms

yui-min.js

13 ms

ir-style.css

145 ms

ir-custom.css

290 ms

ir-local.css

296 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Ir.uiowa.edu, 10% (7 requests) were made to Assets.bepress.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Assets.bepress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 246.6 kB (50%)

Content Size

494.7 kB

After Optimization

248.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ir.uiowa.edu main page is 494.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 222.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 20.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.6 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 18.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 166.1 kB
  • After minification 154.5 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. Ir Uiowa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 82.5 kB
  • After minification 82.5 kB
  • After compression 50.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 184.5 kB

  • Original 222.5 kB
  • After minification 167.0 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Ir.uiowa.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (78%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ir Uiowa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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333 ms

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13 ms

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145 ms

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ir-custom.css

290 ms

ir-local.css

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296 ms

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291 ms

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291 ms

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435 ms

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588 ms

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270 ms

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16 ms

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Accessibility Review

ir.uiowa.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ir.uiowa.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ir.uiowa.edu SEO score

88

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ir.uiowa.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ir.uiowa.edu 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

ir.uiowa.edu

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