Access apply.heller.brandeis.edu. Admissions

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,100 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

8 ms

59 ms

css

43 ms

css

62 ms

all.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Apply.heller.brandeis.edu, 19% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 13% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (241 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Apply.heller.brandeis.edu main page is 2.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 124.5 kB

Original 138.8 kB
After minification 70.5 kB
After compression 14.3 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 68.2 kB, which is 49% 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 124.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 137.1 kB

Original 2.3 MB
After minification 2.2 MB

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. Apply Heller Brandeis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

Original 303.4 kB
After minification 293.8 kB
After compression 240.4 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 63.0 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

Original 108.2 kB
After minification 95.9 kB
After compression 68.1 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. Apply.heller.brandeis.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.1 kB or 37% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Heller Brandeis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.