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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

engineering.wustl.edu

Home | McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

599 ms

Page Rendered

462 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineering.wustl.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

engineering.wustl.edu performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineering.wustl.edu

198 ms

merged-min.css

74 ms

video-controls.js

102 ms

lite-youtube.js

108 ms

gtm.js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Engineering.wustl.edu, 19% (4 requests) were made to Mckelveyengineeringnews.imgix.net and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (238 ms) belongs to the original domain Engineering.wustl.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

739.5 kB

After Optimization

680.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Engineering.wustl.edu main page is 739.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 650.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.1 kB, which is 23% 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 56.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 650.4 kB
  • After minification 649.1 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. Engineering Wu St L images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 619 B

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. Engineering.wustl.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineering Wu St L. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

engineering.wustl.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

engineering.wustl.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

SEO Factors

engineering.wustl.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Engineering.wustl.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 Engineering.wustl.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 Engineering Wu St L. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: