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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu

Northwestern IT Services & Support: Media and Technology Innovation – Northwestern University IT Services & Support: Media & Technology Innovation

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

612 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 36 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

blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu

36 ms

mti.it.northwestern.edu

319 ms

formidableforms.css

28 ms

style.min.css

38 ms

custom-style.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu, 58% (46 requests) were made to Mti.it.northwestern.edu and 16% (13 requests) were made to Common.northwestern.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (424 ms) relates to the external source Common.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu main page is 1.7 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. 80% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 56.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Blog Nuamps At Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 501.5 kB
  • After minification 501.0 kB
  • After compression 494.5 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 94.8 kB
  • After minification 91.4 kB
  • After compression 88.3 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. Blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (72%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Nuamps At 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu SEO score

84

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

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 Blog.nuamps.at.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 Blog.nuamps.at.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 data is detected on the main page of Blog Nuamps At Northwestern. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: