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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

alc.northwestern.edu

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures - Northwestern University

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

About Website

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Asian Languages and Cultures offers an education in the languages, cultures, and literatures of China, India, Japan, Korea, and regions of Asia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alc.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alc.northwestern.edu performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,130 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alc.northwestern.edu

133 ms

js

77 ms

styles.css

225 ms

swiper.css

214 ms

department.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Alc.northwestern.edu, 33% (14 requests) were made to Weinberg.northwestern.edu and 14% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (989 ms) relates to the external source Common.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

704.2 kB

After Optimization

655.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alc.northwestern.edu main page is 704.2 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. 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 375.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 23.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 375.4 kB
  • After minification 354.7 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. Alc Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 216.9 kB
  • After minification 216.9 kB
  • After compression 213.1 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 81.6 kB
  • After minification 81.3 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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. Alc.northwestern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (57%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alc Northwestern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

alc.northwestern.edu accessibility score

93

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alc.northwestern.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

alc.northwestern.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

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 Alc.northwestern.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 Alc.northwestern.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 description is not detected on the main page of Alc Northwestern. 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: