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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

chem.mtu.edu

Chemical Engineering | Michigan Tech

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chem.mtu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chem.mtu.edu performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chem.mtu.edu

123 ms

161 ms

core.css

112 ms

charcoal.css

78 ms

low-profile.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Chem.mtu.edu, 44% (30 requests) were made to Mtu.edu and 12% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) relates to the external source Mtu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 704.8 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

791.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chem.mtu.edu main page is 1.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 574.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 15.3 kB, which is 32% 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 39.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 553.5 kB
  • After minification 531.4 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. Chem Mtu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 385.5 kB

  • Original 574.2 kB
  • After minification 573.1 kB
  • After compression 188.8 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 385.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 258.3 kB

  • Original 321.0 kB
  • After minification 320.3 kB
  • After compression 62.7 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. Chem.mtu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 258.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (45%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chem Mtu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

chem.mtu.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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

chem.mtu.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

chem.mtu.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

    UTF-8

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

chem.mtu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chem Mtu. 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: