Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

tech.calpoly.edu

Home - Information Technology Services - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

396 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tech.calpoly.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 396 ms and then it took 2 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

tech.calpoly.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tech.calpoly.edu

396 ms

system.base.css

125 ms

system.menus.css

182 ms

system.messages.css

184 ms

system.theme.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Tech.calpoly.edu, 20% (10 requests) were made to Content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) relates to the external source Content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 445.9 kB (52%)

Content Size

851.3 kB

After Optimization

405.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Tech.calpoly.edu main page is 851.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 391.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 59.1 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 42.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 391.1 kB
  • After minification 271.3 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. Obviously, Tech Cal Poly needs image optimization as it can save up to 119.8 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 183.1 kB

  • Original 276.8 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 93.7 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 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 100.4 kB

  • Original 122.9 kB
  • After minification 111.2 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. Tech.calpoly.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 100.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (53%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tech.calpoly.edu accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

tech.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

tech.calpoly.edu SEO score

90

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