Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

doerr.rice.edu

Doerr Institute for New Leaders  | DOERR | Rice University

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Doerr.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

doerr.rice.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

doerr.rice.edu

112 ms

google_tag.script.js

57 ms

css_HtNPdwmy22ORPNCrGKGei9y8y34o9NosVbjZlZcNAlI.css

21 ms

c22e70c3df.css

58 ms

slick.min.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Doerr.rice.edu, 38% (21 requests) were made to Staticws.b-cdn.net and 16% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (793 ms) belongs to the original domain Doerr.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 295.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Doerr.rice.edu main page is 2.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 73.9 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 56.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Doerr Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 200.1 kB

  • Original 553.5 kB
  • After minification 553.5 kB
  • After compression 353.5 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 200.1 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 124.6 kB
  • After compression 100.5 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. Doerr.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (74%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Doerr Rice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

doerr.rice.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

doerr.rice.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

doerr.rice.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Doerr.rice.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 Doerr.rice.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 Doerr Rice. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: