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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

history.appstate.edu

Department of History | Appalachian State University

Page Load Speed

813 ms in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

538 ms

Page Rendered

188 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed History.appstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 726 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

history.appstate.edu performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history.appstate.edu

87 ms

css_fdfab32383f1359c0969a0fe75f353fb.css

84 ms

js_a09333833f3648e2fc79579c88465a12.js

84 ms

embed

78 ms

give-glow-button-178-half.png

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original History.appstate.edu, 12% (3 requests) were made to Calendar.google.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (118 ms) relates to the external source Campaign.appstate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 318.7 kB (60%)

Content Size

532.0 kB

After Optimization

213.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of History.appstate.edu main page is 532.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 315.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 14.4 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 9.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 63.9 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. History App State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 192.8 kB

  • Original 315.3 kB
  • After minification 303.9 kB
  • After compression 122.4 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 192.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 109.8 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 129.8 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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.appstate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (41%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History App State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

history.appstate.edu

history.appstate.edu

87 ms

css_fdfab32383f1359c0969a0fe75f353fb.css

css_fdfab32383f1359c0969a0fe75f353fb.css

84 ms

js_a09333833f3648e2fc79579c88465a12.js

js_a09333833f3648e2fc79579c88465a12.js

84 ms

embed

embed

78 ms

give-glow-button-178-half.png

give-glow-button-178-half.png

118 ms

ga.js

ga.js

66 ms

background.gif

background.gif

52 ms

appalachian-classic-header-logo.gif

appalachian-classic-header-logo.gif

52 ms

Map2.jpg

Map2.jpg

71 ms

qep-logo.jpg

qep-logo.jpg

50 ms

bar.gif

bar.gif

51 ms

corner-left.gif

corner-left.gif

51 ms

corner-right.gif

corner-right.gif

75 ms

nav01-background.png

nav01-background.png

75 ms

footer-logo.gif

footer-logo.gif

76 ms

extlink.png

extlink.png

76 ms

mailto.png

mailto.png

77 ms

embed

embed

114 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

21 ms

give-glow-button-178-half.png

give-glow-button-178-half.png

63 ms

css_35a3a2fad4ab1ba091a55d919579578b.css

css_35a3a2fad4ab1ba091a55d919579578b.css

30 ms

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give-glow-button-178-half.png

56 ms

0992f33945a94632a64d2587cfa6f814embedcompiled_fastui.css

0992f33945a94632a64d2587cfa6f814embedcompiled_fastui.css

4 ms

0992f33945a94632a64d2587cfa6f814embedcompiled__en.js

0992f33945a94632a64d2587cfa6f814embedcompiled__en.js

24 ms

client.js

client.js

79 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

7 ms

Accessibility Review

history.appstate.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Best Practices

history.appstate.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

history.appstate.edu SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 History.appstate.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.appstate.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.appstate.edu

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