Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

gsws.pitt.edu

Request Rejected

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

909 ms

Page Rendered

279 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gsws.pitt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gsws.pitt.edu performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gsws.pitt.edu

120 ms

gsws.pitt.edu

170 ms

0812be273cab2000d7a5c511fed7f4df8382381a46a0b0f94e61de9c6750c0e4b049216fa740710f

31 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

49 ms

css_rkxWzikZIGCxmfdDp8is2GyjtlDCe7hHQTjpEbECVTc.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Gsws.pitt.edu, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) belongs to the original domain Gsws.pitt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 754.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Gsws.pitt.edu main page is 3.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 44.4 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 32.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 250.9 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Gsws Pitt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 146.0 kB

  • Original 181.0 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 146.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 324.5 kB

  • Original 388.7 kB
  • After minification 378.3 kB
  • After compression 64.2 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. Gsws.pitt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 324.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (60%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gsws Pitt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gsws.pitt.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

gsws.pitt.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gsws.pitt.edu SEO score

91

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 Gsws.pitt.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 Gsws.pitt.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 Gsws Pitt. 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: