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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

visit.usc.edu

University of Southern California

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

383 ms

Resources Loaded

12.6 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visit.usc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 383 ms and then it took 12.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visit.usc.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.262

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visit.usc.edu

383 ms

style.css

144 ms

fua4yqd.js

54 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

jq.uscecal.visit.js

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Visit.usc.edu, 16% (7 requests) were made to and 9% (4 requests) were made to Web-app.usc.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.8 sec) relates to the external source Api.flickr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 430.1 kB (63%)

Content Size

686.9 kB

After Optimization

256.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visit.usc.edu main page is 686.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 274.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. 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 11.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 122.3 kB
  • After minification 104.8 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, Visit Usc needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.5 kB or 14% 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 173.9 kB

  • Original 273.8 kB
  • After minification 268.8 kB
  • After compression 99.9 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 173.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 227.3 kB

  • Original 274.3 kB
  • After minification 268.3 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. Visit.usc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 227.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (51%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Usc. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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144 ms

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391 ms

Accessibility Review

visit.usc.edu accessibility score

98

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

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

Best Practices

visit.usc.edu best practices score

75

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

visit.usc.edu SEO score

90

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 Visit.usc.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 Visit.usc.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

visit.usc.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Visit Usc. 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: