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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

mae.usu.edu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | College of Engineering | USU

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

About Website

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Welcome to the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at Utah State University.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mae.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mae.usu.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value80.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.333

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value79.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mae.usu.edu

241 ms

mae.usu.edu

244 ms

1114 ms

bootstrap.min.css

329 ms

main.css

355 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Mae.usu.edu, 23% (6 requests) were made to Usu.edu and 12% (3 requests) were made to Engineering.usu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Fontawesome.usu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mae.usu.edu main page is 4.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 33.0 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 6.2 kB, which is 19% 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 26.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 99.1 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. Mae USU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.7 MB
  • After compression 4.6 MB

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

-13%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Mae.usu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (75%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mae USU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mae.usu.edu accessibility score

92

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

mae.usu.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mae.usu.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 Mae.usu.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 Mae.usu.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 Mae USU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: