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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

research.colostate.edu

Vice President For Research - Colorado State University

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

227 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Research.colostate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 227 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

research.colostate.edu performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.research.colostate.edu

227 ms

style.css

27 ms

screen.css

37 ms

poppins.css

333 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Research.colostate.edu, 10% (7 requests) were made to Static.colostate.edu and 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) relates to the external source Trumba.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

959.0 kB

After Optimization

866.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Research.colostate.edu main page is 959.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 560.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.5 kB

  • Original 108.2 kB
  • After minification 105.1 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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. 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 89.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 560.4 kB
  • After minification 560.4 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. Research Colo State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 165.6 kB
  • After minification 165.5 kB
  • After compression 164.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 124.8 kB
  • After minification 124.6 kB
  • After compression 123.3 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. Research.colostate.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (80%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Research Colo 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

research.colostate.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

research.colostate.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

research.colostate.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Research.colostate.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 Research.colostate.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 data is detected on the main page of Research Colo State. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: