Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

cis.rit.edu

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science | College of Science | RIT

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

984 ms

About Website

Visit cis.rit.edu now to see the best up-to-date Cis RIT content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cis.rit.edu

Imaging science is a unique major that combines math, physics, computer science, and engineering to develop imaging systems used in various industries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cis.rit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cis.rit.edu performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cis.rit.edu

49 ms

chester-f-carlson-center-imaging-science

120 ms

css_A9aMUo2kbdb0AFDkM1Gh9J_Uif0ezwS5Jjj83JYWX7Y.css

23 ms

css_8Z_euNiwaKO3jC7KUNjQS78JuL-CTqkZ2Jb_GFNj4hk.css

60 ms

css_i3KERys65sw_sCprhcWRiskeF534HmD_SoYZ6W5wG6M.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cis.rit.edu, 43% (12 requests) were made to Rit.edu and 18% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (515 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.rit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

715.7 kB

After Optimization

541.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Cis.rit.edu main page is 715.7 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. 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. Javascripts take 242.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 170.2 kB

  • Original 200.6 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.8 kB, which is 14% 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 170.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 137.2 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. Cis RIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 242.5 kB
  • After minification 242.5 kB
  • After compression 239.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 858 B

  • Original 135.5 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 134.6 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. Cis.rit.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cis RIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cis.rit.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

cis.rit.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cis.rit.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cis.rit.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 Cis.rit.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 Cis RIT. 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: