Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

gcfp.mit.edu

Welcome | MIT GCFP | MIT Sloan

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

491 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcfp.mit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 1.9 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

gcfp.mit.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

143 ms

welcome

499 ms

google_tag.script.js

24 ms

css_Nb6yKwF8Jqm10n1te2v8yTK7XLdZ_xvr-iFGjVvoN0I.css

26 ms

css_ATYHEAZtH7vPzVR8T5rph5RL6slzwD1Hpbgr4cVR5Nk.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gcfp.mit.edu, 8% (4 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 8% (4 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (499 ms) relates to the external source Mitsloan.mit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Gcfp.mit.edu main page is 3.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 85.2 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 10.0 kB, which is 12% 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 62.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB

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. GCFP MIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 254.9 kB
  • After minification 254.9 kB
  • After compression 224.3 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 30.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 137.6 kB
  • After compression 96.6 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. Gcfp.mit.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.0 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (52%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GCFP MIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gcfp.mit.edu accessibility score

98

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

gcfp.mit.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gcfp.mit.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Gcfp.mit.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 Gcfp.mit.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 data is detected on the main page of GCFP MIT. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: