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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

digicomm.fiu.edu

Web Design & Development Services at FIU | FIU Strategic Communications, Government and External Affairs

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

906 ms

Page Rendered

456 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digicomm.fiu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digicomm.fiu.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digicomm.fiu.edu

30 ms

114 ms

fiu-custom-foundation.css

181 ms

styles.css

158 ms

styles.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Digicomm.fiu.edu, 48% (20 requests) were made to Digicdn.fiu.edu and 31% (13 requests) were made to Stratcomm.fiu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (330 ms) relates to the external source Stratcomm.fiu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 755.4 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Digicomm.fiu.edu main page is 2.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 38.0 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.7 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 34.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Digicomm FIU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 206.9 kB

  • Original 289.8 kB
  • After minification 288.8 kB
  • After compression 82.8 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 206.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 511.8 kB

  • Original 603.4 kB
  • After minification 588.3 kB
  • After compression 91.7 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. Digicomm.fiu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 511.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digicomm FIU. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

digicomm.fiu.edu

digicomm.fiu.edu

30 ms

114 ms

fiu-custom-foundation.css

fiu-custom-foundation.css

181 ms

styles.css

styles.css

158 ms

styles.css

styles.css

172 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

161 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

167 ms

fpx6thr.css

fpx6thr.css

20 ms

furore.css

furore.css

165 ms

barlow.css

barlow.css

186 ms

site-styles.css

site-styles.css

12 ms

core.js

core.js

222 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

jquery.waypoints.min.js

215 ms

sticky.min.js

sticky.min.js

215 ms

fiu-core-carousel.css

fiu-core-carousel.css

216 ms

slick.css

slick.css

216 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

221 ms

fiu-core-carousel.js

fiu-core-carousel.js

219 ms

p.css

p.css

23 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

148 ms

banner-web.jpg

banner-web.jpg

182 ms

logo-top.svg

logo-top.svg

94 ms

footer-logo.svg

footer-logo.svg

95 ms

fiu-web-stand-out.jpg

fiu-web-stand-out.jpg

232 ms

web-example-fiu-main.jpg

web-example-fiu-main.jpg

200 ms

web-example-viewbook.jpg

web-example-viewbook.jpg

201 ms

web-example-business.jpg

web-example-business.jpg

248 ms

web-example-innovation.jpg

web-example-innovation.jpg

213 ms

web-example-fiu-health.jpg

web-example-fiu-health.jpg

282 ms

web-example-welcome.jpg

web-example-welcome.jpg

231 ms

web-example-osher-catalog.jpg

web-example-osher-catalog.jpg

291 ms

web-example-provost.jpg

web-example-provost.jpg

313 ms

web-example-research-magazine.jpg

web-example-research-magazine.jpg

330 ms

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92 ms

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94 ms

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135 ms

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d

134 ms

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134 ms

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

72 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

104 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

64 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

71 ms

Accessibility Review

digicomm.fiu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

digicomm.fiu.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

SEO Factors

digicomm.fiu.edu SEO score

73

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Digicomm.fiu.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 Digicomm.fiu.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

digicomm.fiu.edu

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