Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

lss.wisc.edu

L&S Learning Support Services – Supporting Teaching, Learning, and Technology in the College of Letters & Science – UW–Madison

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

837 ms

Page Rendered

193 ms

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Learning Support Services (LSS) is a non-academic department in the College of Letters & Science. Since its earliest days as the Language Lab serving foreign language faculty, the primary mission at L...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lss.wisc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lss.wisc.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.872

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lss.wisc.edu

154 ms

css_10fa0f53a1e13ab58d01991ac39f009a.css

40 ms

js_0ed2db67e06b38c707c0ba83b55adae0.js

151 ms

analytics.js

36 ms

gplus-64.png

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Lss.wisc.edu, 12% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (279 ms) belongs to the original domain Lss.wisc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

803.0 kB

After Optimization

480.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Lss.wisc.edu main page is 803.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 402.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 43.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 402.1 kB
  • After minification 365.3 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. Lss Wisc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 207.9 kB

  • Original 303.0 kB
  • After minification 256.0 kB
  • After compression 95.1 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 207.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. Lss.wisc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (18%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lss 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lss.wisc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

lss.wisc.edu best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lss.wisc.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 Lss.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 Lss.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lss 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: