Access gss.fiu.edu. Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

gss.fiu.edu

63 ms

fiu-custom-foundation.css

104 ms

styles.css

78 ms

styles.css

91 ms

all.min.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Gss.fiu.edu, 44% (14 requests) were made to Digicdn.fiu.edu and 19% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (471 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Gss.fiu.edu main page is 7.7 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. 75% 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 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

Original 38.6 kB
After minification 33.0 kB
After compression 7.0 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 5.7 kB, which is 15% 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 31.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 213.1 kB

Original 6.8 MB
After minification 6.6 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. Gss Fiu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 165.0 kB

Original 233.3 kB
After minification 233.3 kB
After compression 68.4 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 165.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 494.5 kB

Original 581.7 kB
After minification 570.1 kB
After compression 87.1 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. Gss.fiu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 494.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gss Fiu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.