Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

languages.colostate.edu

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - Colorado State University

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

languages.colostate.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Languages.colostate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

languages.colostate.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

languages.colostate.edu

200 ms

languages.colostate.edu

295 ms

gtm.js

64 ms

beaver-sticks.css

94 ms

genericons.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Languages.colostate.edu, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Libarts.colostate.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Libarts.colostate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Languages.colostate.edu main page is 3.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 83.4 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 66.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 54.4 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 MB

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. Languages Colo State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 256.0 kB
  • After minification 256.0 kB
  • After compression 251.2 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 138.3 kB
  • After minification 137.5 kB
  • After compression 125.4 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. Languages.colostate.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (70%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Languages Colo State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

languages.colostate.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

languages.colostate.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

languages.colostate.edu SEO score

95

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

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 Languages.colostate.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 Languages.colostate.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 description is not detected on the main page of Languages Colo State. 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: