Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

writingcenter.fiu.edu

Center for Excellence in Writing | FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writingcenter.fiu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writingcenter.fiu.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writingcenter.fiu.edu

1203 ms

cas-noc.css

1289 ms

cas-mobile.css

1174 ms

accordion

1148 ms

small

2042 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Writingcenter.fiu.edu, 68% (13 requests) were made to Cstatic.fiu.edu and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Cstatic.fiu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Writingcenter.fiu.edu main page is 1.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 6.9 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 4.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Writing Center FIU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 56.7 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 33.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. Writingcenter.fiu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (44%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writing Center 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writingcenter.fiu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

writingcenter.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

writingcenter.fiu.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Writingcenter.fiu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Writingcenter.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Writing Center FIU. 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: