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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ist.rit.edu

School of Information | Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences | RIT

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

772 ms

Page Rendered

379 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ist.rit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 95 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

ist.rit.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,670 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ist.rit.edu

95 ms

allsite.min.css

44 ms

allsite.min.js

79 ms

css

63 ms

js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Ist.rit.edu, 10% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (95 ms) belongs to the original domain Ist.rit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.0 kB (64%)

Content Size

447.7 kB

After Optimization

161.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ist.rit.edu main page is 447.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 226.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.9 kB, which is 18% 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 7.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 92.4 kB
  • After minification 81.3 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. Obviously, Ist RIT needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 76.9 kB

  • Original 117.9 kB
  • After minification 117.9 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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 76.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 190.2 kB

  • Original 226.8 kB
  • After minification 226.8 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Ist.rit.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ist RIT. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ist.rit.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ist.rit.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ist.rit.edu SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Ist.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 Ist.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 Ist 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: