Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

geo.northeastern.edu

Global Experience Office (GEO) at Northeastern University

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geo.northeastern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geo.northeastern.edu performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geo.northeastern.edu

81 ms

geo.northeastern.edu

154 ms

style.min.css

109 ms

shortcodes.css

42 ms

style.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Geo.northeastern.edu, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Geo.northeastern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 360.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Geo.northeastern.edu main page is 4.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 171.2 kB

  • Original 221.9 kB
  • After minification 196.5 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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 25.3 kB, which is 11% 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 171.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 166.4 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. GEO Northeastern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 638.4 kB
  • After minification 638.4 kB
  • After compression 626.4 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 123.7 kB
  • After minification 123.6 kB
  • After compression 112.4 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. Geo.northeastern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (63%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GEO Northeastern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

geo.northeastern.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

geo.northeastern.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

geo.northeastern.edu SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Geo.northeastern.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 Geo.northeastern.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 GEO Northeastern. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: