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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

living.cornell.edu

Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University

Page Load Speed

600 ms in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

406 ms

Page Rendered

169 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Living Cornell content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about living.cornell.edu

Residential life at Cornell provides student support and programming in the residence halls to make your experience engaging, meaningful, and gratifying.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Living.cornell.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 575 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

living.cornell.edu performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.224

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

living.cornell.edu

25 ms

residential-life

45 ms

gtag.js

5 ms

nwp2wku.css

65 ms

css_6ggRXf4Xd8b8QSPNBiDWUcVZizWx3MrZ0jpZhpZAYMA.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Living.cornell.edu, 52% (13 requests) were made to Scl.cornell.edu and 40% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (65 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

522.0 kB

After Optimization

501.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Living.cornell.edu main page is 522.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 305.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 4.4 kB, which is 17% 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 20.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 305.6 kB
  • After minification 305.5 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. Living Cornell images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 128.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 96 B

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. Living.cornell.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (25%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Living Cornell. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

living.cornell.edu accessibility score

96

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

living.cornell.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

SEO Factors

living.cornell.edu SEO score

99

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 Living.cornell.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 Living.cornell.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 Living Cornell. 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: