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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

provost.umich.edu

Homepage | U-M Office of the Provost

Page Load Speed

826 ms in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

531 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Provost.umich.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 722 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

provost.umich.edu performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

provost.umich.edu

104 ms

main.css

70 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

143 ms

search.js

49 ms

ga.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Provost.umich.edu, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (265 ms) belongs to the original domain Provost.umich.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

511.1 kB

After Optimization

420.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Provost.umich.edu main page is 511.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 418.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 5.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 418.7 kB
  • After minification 378.6 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. Provost Umich images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 74.9 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 38.0 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 9.2 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Provost.umich.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Provost Umich. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

provost.umich.edu

provost.umich.edu

104 ms

main.css

main.css

70 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

143 ms

search.js

search.js

49 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

73 ms

topback.jpg

topback.jpg

25 ms

provost.jpg

provost.jpg

27 ms

leftnav.jpg

leftnav.jpg

74 ms

menu_divider.jpg

menu_divider.jpg

50 ms

image_fall_sm.jpg

image_fall_sm.jpg

170 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

51 ms

m_pollack.jpg

m_pollack.jpg

265 ms

divider.jpg

divider.jpg

74 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

provost.umich.edu accessibility score

92

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

provost.umich.edu best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

provost.umich.edu SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Provost.umich.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 Provost.umich.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

provost.umich.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Provost Umich. 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: