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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

mica.edu

MICA

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

mica.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit mica.edu now to see the best up-to-date MICA content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mica.edu

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a leader in the world of visual arts featuring undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mica.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Mica.edu rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

mica.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.304

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mica.edu

95 ms

www.mica.edu

320 ms

screen.css

43 ms

layout.css

68 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (127 requests) were addressed to the original Mica.edu, 5% (8 requests) were made to T.sellpoints.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (421 ms) belongs to the original domain Mica.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (22%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mica.edu main page is 5.2 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. 80% 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 83.3 kB
  • After minification 82.5 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. 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 69.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 465.9 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Obviously, MICA needs image optimization as it can save up to 465.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 512.1 kB

  • Original 760.8 kB
  • After minification 719.6 kB
  • After compression 248.6 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 512.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 118.3 kB

  • Original 142.6 kB
  • After minification 114.0 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Mica.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (30%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

100

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MICA. 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 from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mica.edu

mica.edu

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www.mica.edu

www.mica.edu

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Accessibility Review

mica.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mica.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

mica.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

    ISO-8859-1

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

mica.edu

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