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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

alumnus.msstate.edu

WINTER 2023 Alumnus Magazine

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alumnus.msstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alumnus.msstate.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,930 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alumnus.msstate.edu

91 ms

alumnus.msstate.edu

140 ms

alumnusmagazine.com

72 ms

styles.css

23 ms

mu-style.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Alumnus.msstate.edu, 86% (130 requests) were made to Alumnusmagazine.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (360 ms) relates to the external source Alumnusmagazine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alumnus.msstate.edu main page is 2.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 151.9 kB

  • Original 180.3 kB
  • After minification 155.0 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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 25.4 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 151.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 601.3 kB
  • After minification 601.3 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. Alumnus Msstate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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

-8%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 153.5 kB
  • After minification 151.5 kB
  • After compression 141.3 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. Alumnus.msstate.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (71%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

41

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alumnus Msstate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 78 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

alumnus.msstate.edu accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

alumnus.msstate.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

alumnus.msstate.edu SEO score

91

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

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 Alumnus.msstate.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 Alumnus.msstate.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 Alumnus Msstate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: