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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

usmresearchfoundation.org

University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation | Office of the Vice President for Research | The University of Southern Mississippi

Page Load Speed

908 ms in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

673 ms

Page Rendered

173 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usmresearchfoundation.org page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 846 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

usmresearchfoundation.org performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usmresearchfoundation.org

62 ms

university-southern-mississippi-research-foundation

222 ms

university-southern-mississippi-research-foundation.php

42 ms

rxq3ycy.css

81 ms

main.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Usmresearchfoundation.org, 63% (15 requests) were made to Usm.edu and 21% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (222 ms) relates to the external source Usm.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

309.3 kB

After Optimization

267.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usmresearchfoundation.org main page is 309.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 138.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 9.7 kB, which is 21% 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 37.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 138.7 kB
  • After minification 138.5 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. Usm Research Foundation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 956 B

  • Original 77.8 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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. Usmresearchfoundation.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (69%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Usm Research Foundation. 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

usmresearchfoundation.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

usmresearchfoundation.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

usmresearchfoundation.org 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 Usmresearchfoundation.org 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 Usmresearchfoundation.org 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 Usm Research Foundation. 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: