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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

tech.northwestern.edu

Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

431 ms

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About Website

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Northwestern Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs and research opportunities. Employing our whole-brain engineering philosophy, students and award-winning faculty and research...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tech.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 110 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

tech.northwestern.edu performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,380 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.703

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tech.northwestern.edu

110 ms

www.mccormick.northwestern.edu

229 ms

normalize.css

50 ms

jquery-slick.css

117 ms

default.css

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tech.northwestern.edu, 75% (40 requests) were made to Mccormick.northwestern.edu and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (771 ms) relates to the external source Mccormick.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 643.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tech.northwestern.edu main page is 3.0 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. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 22.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Tech Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 251.2 kB

  • Original 366.4 kB
  • After minification 339.1 kB
  • After compression 115.2 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 251.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 330.5 kB

  • Original 392.3 kB
  • After minification 340.7 kB
  • After compression 61.8 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. Tech.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 330.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (43%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech Northwestern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tech.northwestern.edu

tech.northwestern.edu

110 ms

www.mccormick.northwestern.edu

www.mccormick.northwestern.edu

229 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

50 ms

jquery-slick.css

jquery-slick.css

117 ms

default.css

default.css

104 ms

layout.css

layout.css

174 ms

home.css

home.css

114 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

12 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

13 ms

jquery-footable.min.js

jquery-footable.min.js

115 ms

home.js

home.js

109 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

145 ms

breakpoints.js

breakpoints.js

157 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

235 ms

jquery-slick-1.3.6.js

jquery-slick-1.3.6.js

381 ms

mti-tracking.js

mti-tracking.js

164 ms

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home-slide-gradient.png

493 ms

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614 ms

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613 ms

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757 ms

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612 ms

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613 ms

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researchers-pinpoint-place-where-cancer-cells-may-begin-rotation.jpg

755 ms

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771 ms

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689 ms

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690 ms

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690 ms

northwestern-logo-global-nav.svg

northwestern-logo-global-nav.svg

531 ms

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536 ms

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535 ms

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537 ms

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546 ms

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homepage-social.svg

568 ms

stitch-short-white.png

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562 ms

northwestern-logo.svg

northwestern-logo.svg

565 ms

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572 ms

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546 ms

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546 ms

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121 ms

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158 ms

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441 ms

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111 ms

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121 ms

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426 ms

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25 ms

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41 ms

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64 ms

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104 ms

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60 ms

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60 ms

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46 ms

Accessibility Review

tech.northwestern.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

tech.northwestern.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

tech.northwestern.edu SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tech.northwestern.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Tech.northwestern.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

tech.northwestern.edu

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