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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

lsualumni.org

LSU Alumni Association | Louisiana State University Alumni

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing LSU Alumni content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lsualumni.org

The LSU Alumni Association strives to keep alumni connected by maintaining up-to-date records for 130 chapters and more than 225,000 alumni worldwide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lsualumni.org page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lsualumni.org performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lsualumni.org

92 ms

www.lsualumni.org

75 ms

jquery-1.7.1.js

46 ms

main.min.css

45 ms

css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Lsualumni.org, 9% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Lsualumni.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 183.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

11.9 MB

After Optimization

11.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lsualumni.org main page is 11.9 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 11.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 63.2 kB

  • Original 74.9 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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 10.3 kB, which is 14% 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 63.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 110.4 kB

  • Original 11.7 MB
  • After minification 11.6 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. LSU Alumni images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 82.2 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. Lsualumni.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LSU Alumni. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 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

lsualumni.org accessibility score

77

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

lsualumni.org 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

lsualumni.org SEO score

86

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

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 Lsualumni.org 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 Lsualumni.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 data is detected on the main page of LSU Alumni. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: