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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

history.wisc.edu

Department of History – UW–Madison

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

736 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed History.wisc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 898 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

history.wisc.edu performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history.wisc.edu

211 ms

reset.css

66 ms

jquery-ui.css

123 ms

fullcalendar.css

99 ms

font-awesome.min.css

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original History.wisc.edu, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (255 ms) belongs to the original domain History.wisc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 729.8 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

982.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of History.wisc.edu main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 32.6 kB
  • After minification 28.5 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 4.1 kB, which is 13% 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 25.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 293.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 810.8 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, History Wisc needs image optimization as it can save up to 293.4 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 327.4 kB

  • Original 476.7 kB
  • After minification 473.9 kB
  • After compression 149.3 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 327.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 99.0 kB
  • After minification 72.3 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. History.wisc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (32%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

43

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History Wisc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

history.wisc.edu

history.wisc.edu

211 ms

reset.css

reset.css

66 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

123 ms

fullcalendar.css

fullcalendar.css

99 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

5 ms

main.css

main.css

143 ms

history.css

history.css

108 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

211 ms

jquery.jgfeed-min.js

jquery.jgfeed-min.js

101 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

232 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

73 ms

fullcalendar.min.js

fullcalendar.min.js

204 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

86 ms

jquery-cylcle.min.js

jquery-cylcle.min.js

110 ms

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

114 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

116 ms

ww-extras.js

ww-extras.js

203 ms

analytics.js

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35 ms

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51 ms

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49 ms

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149 ms

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150 ms

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154 ms

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151 ms

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153 ms

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181 ms

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189 ms

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184 ms

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192 ms

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227 ms

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241 ms

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243 ms

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243 ms

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247 ms

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164 ms

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191 ms

Accessibility Review

history.wisc.edu accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

history.wisc.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

history.wisc.edu SEO score

100

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

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 History.wisc.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 History.wisc.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

history.wisc.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of History Wisc. 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: