Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

clarke.cmich.edu

Clarke Historical Library | Central Michigan University

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

706 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

510 ms

clarke.cmich.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Clarke.cmich.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 706 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

clarke.cmich.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.88

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

clarke-historical-library

706 ms

gtm.js

96 ms

WebResource.axd

27 ms

head.min.css

75 ms

head.min.js

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Clarke.cmich.edu, 29% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 11% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (706 ms) relates to the external source Cmich.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

602.0 kB

After Optimization

547.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Clarke.cmich.edu main page is 602.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 472.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 65.4 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 7.3 kB, which is 11% 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 51.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 472.8 kB
  • After minification 472.8 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. Clarke Cmich images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 557 B

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 45.3 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. Clarke.cmich.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (62%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Clarke Cmich. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

clarke.cmich.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

clarke.cmich.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

clarke.cmich.edu SEO score

92

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