Interoperability
OAI-PMH The OAI-PMH protocol is enabled and has content indexed.
REST API The REST API is enabled and has content available.
Robots file The Robots.txt file is available.
Sitemaps file The DSpace's Sitemaps feature is not enabled. This feature should be enabled to boost access to the Repository's content.
Custom Handle Prefix
The Handle Prefix wasn't customized. DSpace comes with a default Handle Prefix of 123456789
. It is a good practice to customize it.
Information Security
DSpace version The Repository's DSpace version is 5.9-SNAPSHOT, which is outdated or not supported . A version upgrade should be performed as soon as possible.
Cryptography In order to meet this criteria, the HTTPS protocol must be enabled, accepting TLS with minimum version of 1.2 and the HTTP protocol must forward to HTTPS.
Security Headers
The Headers X-Frame-Options
and/or X-Content-Type-Options
are not available. Refer to OWASP Secure Headers Project for details on its benefits.
Tomcat exposed Apache Tomcat is the Web Server exposed to the Internet. Consider fronting Tomcat with Apache HTTP or Nginx.
Standard Ports Standard HTTP/HTTPS ports are used and no port is exposed in the URL.
Performance
Subsecond Response Time The following pages: Homepage, Community List, Search Result, had an average response time higher than 1 second. It is important to keep the response time lower than 1 second .
HTTP/2 Protocol The HTTP/2 Protocol is not implemented in the Web Server. HTTP/2 offers many enhancements over HTTP/1.1 such as Multiplexing of requests, Flow control and Prioritization.
Usability
Mobile Ready Something is preventing the test to be run by the Google's Mobile-Friendly Test tool. Usually this is due to a firewall or Robots.txt configuration.
Single Web Interface Only one User Interface is active. DSpace (up to version 6.X) is shipped with two User Interfaces: XMLUI and JSPUI. It is a good practice to have only one of these active.
Content in Communities and Collections All Communities and Collections have content. According to the REST API, there are 1 Community and 1 Collection in the Repository.
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Repository Insights™ analyzes 16 metrics in Institutional Repositories (IR) built in DSpace for improvements.
We aim to help institutions foster their IR solution by providing a comprehensive report into four categories: Interoperability, Information Security, Performance and Usability.