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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

washingtonlifescience.com

WashingtonLifeScience.com

Page Load Speed

16 sec in total

First Response

4.8 sec

Resources Loaded

10.9 sec

Page Rendered

266 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Washingtonlifescience.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.8 sec and then it took 11.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

washingtonlifescience.com performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index_html

4809 ms

global.v1.0.css

102 ms

horiz_nav.css

95 ms

horiz_nav.js

96 ms

urchin.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Washingtonlifescience.com, 27% (8 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Wabio.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Washingtonlifescience.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

247.1 kB

After Optimization

216.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Washingtonlifescience.com main page is 247.1 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 209.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 3.8 kB, which is 14% 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 21.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 209.0 kB
  • After minification 203.3 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. Washington Life Science images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 3.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (34%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Washington Life Science. 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

index_html

index_html

4809 ms

global.v1.0.css

global.v1.0.css

102 ms

horiz_nav.css

horiz_nav.css

95 ms

horiz_nav.js

horiz_nav.js

96 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

25 ms

morearrow

morearrow

202 ms

topbanner_left

topbanner_left

160 ms

side_bar_pattern

side_bar_pattern

59 ms

vital_signs_smoking_medium_tower_2.gif

vital_signs_smoking_medium_tower_2.gif

61 ms

athena_partners

athena_partners

98 ms

job_banner_tower_tall.gif

job_banner_tower_tall.gif

216 ms

morearrow

morearrow

100 ms

Knobbe_martens.gif

Knobbe_martens.gif

162 ms

job_banner_horizontal.gif

job_banner_horizontal.gif

233 ms

icogenex_bioincubator.jpg

icogenex_bioincubator.jpg

158 ms

equipnet_march24_2016.gif

equipnet_march24_2016.gif

159 ms

national_native_hiv_awareness2.gif

national_native_hiv_awareness2.gif

181 ms

supreme_court.jpg

supreme_court.jpg

190 ms

IA_BioGenealogy06_small.jpg

IA_BioGenealogy06_small.jpg

198 ms

typhoid_nih_sm.jpg

typhoid_nih_sm.jpg

259 ms

email_icon.gif

email_icon.gif

226 ms

print_icon.gif

print_icon.gif

235 ms

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__utm.gif

3 ms

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5 ms

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5 ms

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5 ms

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5 ms

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__utm.gif

6 ms

print.css

print.css

47 ms

Accessibility Review

washingtonlifescience.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

washingtonlifescience.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

washingtonlifescience.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Washingtonlifescience.com 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 Washingtonlifescience.com 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

washingtonlifescience.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Washington Life Science. 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: