Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

blackland.tamu.edu

Blackland | Texas A&M AgriLife Blackland Research & Extension Center

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

577 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackland.tamu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 577 ms and then it took 2 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

blackland.tamu.edu performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackland.tamu.edu

577 ms

style.css

103 ms

widget-calendar-skeleton.css

70 ms

tribe-events-pro-skeleton.css

70 ms

style.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Blackland.tamu.edu, 9% (6 requests) were made to and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackland.tamu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackland.tamu.edu main page is 3.7 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 88.3 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 115.6 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 88.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 674.6 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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, Blackland Tamu needs image optimization as it can save up to 674.6 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 439.7 kB

  • Original 688.0 kB
  • After minification 682.3 kB
  • After compression 248.3 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 439.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 130.0 kB

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 123.6 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Blackland.tamu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (37%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackland Tamu. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackland.tamu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blackland.tamu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackland.tamu.edu SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blackland.tamu.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 Blackland.tamu.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 Blackland Tamu. 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: