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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

extension.umass.edu

Extension Outreach Overview | Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

932 ms

Page Rendered

269 ms

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Outreach educational programs from the UMass Extension unit of the Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment take many forms. However, they are focused on a common goal, which is to educate an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Extension.umass.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 56 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

extension.umass.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,880 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

extension.umass.edu

56 ms

ag.umass.edu

73 ms

system.base.css

25 ms

system.menus.css

31 ms

system.messages.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Extension.umass.edu, 74% (88 requests) were made to Ag.umass.edu and 8% (10 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (214 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.syndication.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 835.8 kB (63%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

483.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Extension.umass.edu main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 570.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 100.0 kB

  • Original 121.5 kB
  • After minification 117.1 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 100.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 234.3 kB
  • After minification 215.6 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. Extension Umass images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 233.0 kB

  • Original 393.3 kB
  • After minification 344.4 kB
  • After compression 160.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 233.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 484.0 kB

  • Original 570.2 kB
  • After minification 454.9 kB
  • After compression 86.2 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. Extension.umass.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 484.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (76%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Extension Umass. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 57 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

extension.umass.edu accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

extension.umass.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

extension.umass.edu SEO score

84

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

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 Extension.umass.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 Extension.umass.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 Extension Umass. 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: