Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

itcs.ecu.edu

ITCS | Information Technology and Computing Services | ECU

Page Load Speed

594 ms in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

406 ms

Page Rendered

159 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itcs.ecu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 565 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itcs.ecu.edu performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itcs.ecu.edu

29 ms

style.min.css

14 ms

itcs-status.css

43 ms

style.css

36 ms

css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Itcs.ecu.edu, 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (157 ms) relates to the external source Youvisit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

500.9 kB

After Optimization

386.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Itcs.ecu.edu main page is 500.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 205.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 105.0 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 82.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 205.1 kB
  • After minification 205.1 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. ITCS ECU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 90.1 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 10.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 94.3 kB
  • After compression 72.0 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. Itcs.ecu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (76%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ITCS ECU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itcs.ecu.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

itcs.ecu.edu best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

itcs.ecu.edu SEO score

87

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 Itcs.ecu.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 Itcs.ecu.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 ITCS ECU. 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: