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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

summer.rice.edu

Rice Summer Programs | Summer Programs | Rice University

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

517 ms

Page Rendered

512 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Summer.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

summer.rice.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

summer.rice.edu

26 ms

google_tag.script.js

10 ms

css_lA-_vDunoba6xeYNrg7fwHnsrKLavrgjcg7mRfC7rBs.css

9 ms

c22e70c3df.css

112 ms

slick.min.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Summer.rice.edu, 31% (20 requests) were made to Staticws.b-cdn.net and 14% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (218 ms) belongs to the original domain Summer.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Summer.rice.edu main page is 2.3 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. 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 87.8 kB
  • After minification 83.6 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 63.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Summer Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 353.5 kB
  • After minification 353.5 kB
  • After compression 350.2 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 104.3 kB
  • After compression 100.2 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. Summer.rice.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (62%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Summer 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

summer.rice.edu accessibility score

90

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

summer.rice.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

summer.rice.edu SEO score

93

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

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