Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

philosophy.calpoly.edu

Home - Philosophy Department - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

411 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

686 ms

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About Website

Visit philosophy.calpoly.edu now to see the best up-to-date Philosophy Cal Poly content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about philosophy.calpoly.edu

The Cal Poly Philosophy Department boasts one of the largest programs in the California State University system. Currently there are over twenty members of the faculty and about 140 philosophy majors....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Philosophy.calpoly.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 411 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

philosophy.calpoly.edu performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

philosophy.calpoly.edu

411 ms

system.base.css

118 ms

system.menus.css

236 ms

system.messages.css

319 ms

system.theme.css

318 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Philosophy.calpoly.edu, 22% (15 requests) were made to Content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (938 ms) relates to the external source Content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 404.5 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

775.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Philosophy.calpoly.edu main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 646.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 100.7 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 127.2 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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 100.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 646.1 kB
  • After minification 625.7 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. Philosophy Cal Poly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 183.1 kB

  • Original 281.5 kB
  • After minification 254.7 kB
  • After compression 98.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 183.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 100.2 kB

  • Original 122.6 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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. Philosophy.calpoly.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 100.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (48%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Philosophy Cal Poly. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

philosophy.calpoly.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

philosophy.calpoly.edu best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

philosophy.calpoly.edu SEO score

85

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

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

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 Philosophy.calpoly.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 Philosophy.calpoly.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 Philosophy Cal Poly. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: