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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

museums.iastate.edu

Educational & Cultural Resources for the Visual Arts | ISU University Museums

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Museums Iastate content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about museums.iastate.edu

Your University Museums at Iowa State foster understanding & delight in visual arts. FREE & open to the public. Permanent collection & traveling exhibitions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Museums.iastate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

museums.iastate.edu performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.242

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

museums.iastate.edu

219 ms

www.museums.iastate.edu

956 ms

screen-194e92ce93c930a6191138a0a3e989aa.css

65 ms

responsive-a15726f3606f7e692c4e8492ab726818.css

119 ms

jquery.mmenu.all-ee0043f3a4d63d0c00b6af1347ff833f.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Museums.iastate.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (956 ms) belongs to the original domain Museums.iastate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

723.9 kB

After Optimization

661.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Museums.iastate.edu main page is 723.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 520.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 55.5 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 47.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 520.9 kB
  • After minification 520.9 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. Museums Iastate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 103.0 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

-33%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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. Museums.iastate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.3 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (53%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Museums Iastate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

museums.iastate.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

museums.iastate.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

museums.iastate.edu SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Museums.iastate.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 Museums.iastate.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 Museums Iastate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: