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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sper.usu.edu

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling | USU

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

677 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sper.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sper.usu.edu performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value78.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sper.usu.edu

169 ms

sper.usu.edu

226 ms

324 ms

bootstrap.min.css

371 ms

main.css

420 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sper.usu.edu, 38% (12 requests) were made to Cehs.usu.edu and 19% (6 requests) were made to 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 1.1 MB (17%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sper.usu.edu main page is 6.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.3 kB

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 34.1 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 10.9 kB, which is 24% 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 36.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 961.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 856.8 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, Sper USU needs image optimization as it can save up to 961.9 kB or 53% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

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 6.1 kB

  • Original 46.1 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Sper.usu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (42%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sper 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sper.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

sper.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

sper.usu.edu SEO score

92

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