Access publicaffairs.northeastern.edu. Public Affairs Master's Programs at Northeastern University

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,930 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

publicaffairs.northeastern.edu

36 ms

publicaffairs.northeastern.edu

619 ms

gtm.js

105 ms

ou.min.css

11 ms

style.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Publicaffairs.northeastern.edu, 12% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 11% (8 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.allcampus.com.

Content Size

922.5 kB

After Optimization

794.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Publicaffairs.northeastern.edu main page is 922.5 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 497.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

Original 82.3 kB
After minification 72.1 kB
After compression 17.6 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 10.1 kB, which is 12% 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 64.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 92 B

Original 497.8 kB
After minification 497.7 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. Public Affairs Northeastern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

Original 264.7 kB
After minification 264.3 kB
After compression 225.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 39.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

Original 77.8 kB
After minification 76.7 kB
After compression 53.2 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. Publicaffairs.northeastern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.6 kB or 32% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Public Affairs 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 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.