Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% 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

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

languages.colostate.edu

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - Colorado State University

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

576 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

languages.colostate.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Languages.colostate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 576 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

languages.colostate.edu performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

languages.colostate.edu

576 ms

css

24 ms

events_manager.css

47 ms

thimble-1.1.css

107 ms

genericons.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Languages.colostate.edu, 11% (6 requests) were made to Web.libarts.colostate.edu and 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Web.libarts.colostate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

785.0 kB

After Optimization

383.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Languages.colostate.edu main page is 785.0 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. Javascripts take 436.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 24.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 239.7 kB
  • After minification 217.5 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. Languages Colo State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 304.9 kB

  • Original 436.5 kB
  • After minification 416.2 kB
  • After compression 131.7 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 304.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 78.9 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Languages.colostate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (63%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Languages Colo State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

languages.colostate.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

languages.colostate.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

SEO Factors

languages.colostate.edu SEO score

95

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

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Languages Colo State. 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: