Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

hipersoft.cs.rice.edu

Welcome to the Center for High Performance Software Research

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

585 ms

Page Rendered

426 ms

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Rice University established the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft) in October 1998. The Center's goal is to foster research on the design and implementation of software critical...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hipersoft.cs.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hipersoft.cs.rice.edu performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hipersoft.cs.rice.edu

290 ms

body_styles.css

78 ms

header_styles.css

88 ms

projects_button_over.gif

149 ms

members_button_over.gif

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hipersoft.cs.rice.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) belongs to the original domain Hipersoft.cs.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.6 kB (70%)

Content Size

9.4 kB

After Optimization

2.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Hipersoft.cs.rice.edu main page is 9.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 8.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 8.8 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 6.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 415 B

  • Original 596 B
  • After minification 517 B
  • After compression 181 B

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. Hipersoft.cs.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 415 B or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hipersoft Cs Rice. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

hipersoft.cs.rice.edu accessibility score

52

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

hipersoft.cs.rice.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

hipersoft.cs.rice.edu SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hipersoft.cs.rice.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 Hipersoft.cs.rice.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hipersoft Cs Rice. 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: