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explore.saic.edu

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Best Art School & Top Fine Arts College in The US

Page Load Speed

730 ms in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

501 ms

Page Rendered

50 ms

About Website

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Internationally regarded as one of the best art schools and top fine arts colleges in the US, SAIC offers a comprehensive education centered in the visual and related arts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explore.saic.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 551 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

explore.saic.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

explore.saic.edu

179 ms

explore.saic.edu

309 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Explore.saic.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (309 ms) belongs to the original domain Explore.saic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 730.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Explore.saic.edu main page is 5.6 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 328 B

  • Original 740 B
  • After minification 713 B
  • After compression 412 B

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 328 B or 44% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Explore Saic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 357.5 kB

  • Original 541.3 kB
  • After minification 533.4 kB
  • After compression 183.8 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 357.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 366.9 kB

  • Original 879.3 kB
  • After minification 832.3 kB
  • After compression 512.4 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. Explore.saic.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 366.9 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Explore.saic.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Explore.saic.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Explore Saic. 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: