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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

levyinstitute.org

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

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The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy think tank

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Key Findings

We analyzed Levyinstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.8 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

levyinstitute.org performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

levyinstitute.org

100 ms

www.levyinstitute.org

549 ms

style.css

90 ms

mainjs.js

106 ms

buttons.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Levyinstitute.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (549 ms) belongs to the original domain Levyinstitute.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 784.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Levyinstitute.org main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

  • Original 174.1 kB
  • After minification 148.5 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.6 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 142.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 203.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 970.1 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. Obviously, Levy Institute needs image optimization as it can save up to 203.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 393.4 kB

  • Original 808.2 kB
  • After minification 808.2 kB
  • After compression 414.9 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 393.4 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 54.6 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Levyinstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (32%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Levy Institute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

levyinstitute.org accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

levyinstitute.org best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

levyinstitute.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Levyinstitute.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Levyinstitute.org 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 Levy Institute. 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: