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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

socialsciences.calpoly.edu

Welcome to the Social Sciences Department - Social Sciences Department - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

393 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Socialsciences.calpoly.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 393 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

socialsciences.calpoly.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

socialsciences.calpoly.edu

393 ms

system.base.css

63 ms

system.menus.css

125 ms

system.messages.css

181 ms

system.theme.css

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Socialsciences.calpoly.edu, 27% (15 requests) were made to Content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (746 ms) relates to the external source Content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 412.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Socialsciences.calpoly.edu main page is 2.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 47.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 81.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Social Sciences Cal Poly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 183.1 kB

  • Original 259.7 kB
  • After minification 232.8 kB
  • After compression 76.6 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 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 100.1 kB

  • Original 122.5 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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. Socialsciences.calpoly.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 100.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (51%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Social Sciences 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

socialsciences.calpoly.edu

socialsciences.calpoly.edu

393 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

63 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

125 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

181 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

182 ms

aggregator.css

aggregator.css

185 ms

comment.css

comment.css

185 ms

field.css

field.css

186 ms

node.css

node.css

193 ms

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search.css

240 ms

user.css

user.css

241 ms

views.css

views.css

245 ms

ckeditor.css

ckeditor.css

245 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

245 ms

tableofcontents.css

tableofcontents.css

256 ms

css

css

36 ms

cp_style.min.css

cp_style.min.css

416 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

360 ms

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304 ms

cp_custom.css

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305 ms

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307 ms

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63 ms

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89 ms

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95 ms

addthis_widget.js

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158 ms

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51 ms

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591 ms

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122 ms

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123 ms

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125 ms

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122 ms

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566 ms

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578 ms

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513 ms

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78 ms

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66 ms

Accessibility Review

socialsciences.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

socialsciences.calpoly.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

socialsciences.calpoly.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Socialsciences.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 Socialsciences.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

socialsciences.calpoly.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Social Sciences Cal Poly. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: