Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

civic.duke.edu

Civic Engagement - Duke Office of Durham and Community Affairs

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

546 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Civic.duke.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

civic.duke.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

civic.duke.edu

73 ms

civic.duke.edu

103 ms

366 ms

gtm.js

85 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Civic.duke.edu, 60% (29 requests) were made to Community.duke.edu and 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (366 ms) relates to the external source Community.duke.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

422.4 kB

After Optimization

345.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Civic.duke.edu main page is 422.4 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 231.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 62.9 kB
  • After minification 57.1 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 50.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 231.0 kB
  • After minification 204.3 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, Civic Duke needs image optimization as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 89.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 89.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 200 B

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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. Civic.duke.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (49%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Civic Duke. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

civic.duke.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

civic.duke.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

civic.duke.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Civic.duke.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 Civic.duke.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 Civic Duke. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: