Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

advising.ttu.edu

University Advising | Texas Tech University Advising | TTU

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

206 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Advising.ttu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 206 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

advising.ttu.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

advising.ttu.edu

206 ms

384 ms

style.css

165 ms

modernizr.js

148 ms

global.js

262 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Advising.ttu.edu, 49% (20 requests) were made to Depts.ttu.edu and 20% (8 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (489 ms) relates to the external source Badge.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 699.5 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

508.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Advising.ttu.edu main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 462.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 5.8 kB, which is 18% 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 24.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 388.4 kB
  • After minification 339.1 kB

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, Advising TTU needs image optimization as it can save up to 49.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 326.2 kB

  • Original 462.0 kB
  • After minification 440.6 kB
  • After compression 135.9 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 326.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 299.6 kB

  • Original 325.0 kB
  • After minification 317.9 kB
  • After compression 25.4 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. Advising.ttu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 299.6 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (60%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Advising TTU. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

advising.ttu.edu accessibility score

85

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

advising.ttu.edu best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

advising.ttu.edu SEO score

89

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 Advising.ttu.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 Advising.ttu.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 Advising TTU. 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: