Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

recreation.rutgers.edu

Recreation – Rutgers University | Division of Student Affairs – New Brunswick

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

541 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recreation.rutgers.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recreation.rutgers.edu performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.732

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recreation.rutgers.edu

1551 ms

analytics.js

28 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

19 ms

tribe-events-full.min.css

27 ms

announcer-styles.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Recreation.rutgers.edu, 48% (32 requests) were made to Slwordpress.rutgers.edu and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Recreation.rutgers.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.4 MB (18%)

Content Size

19.1 MB

After Optimization

15.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Recreation.rutgers.edu main page is 19.1 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. 85% 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 15.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 96.4 kB

  • Original 120.7 kB
  • After minification 117.1 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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 96.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 429.6 kB

  • Original 15.6 MB
  • After minification 15.2 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. Recreation Rutgers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 710.8 kB

  • Original 995.7 kB
  • After minification 984.6 kB
  • After compression 284.9 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 710.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 252.2 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. Recreation.rutgers.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (44%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recreation Rutgers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recreation.rutgers.edu accessibility score

60

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

recreation.rutgers.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Recreation.rutgers.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 Recreation.rutgers.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 description is not detected on the main page of Recreation Rutgers. 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: