Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

sociology.gsu.edu

Sociology - Sociology at Georgia State

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

531 ms

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About Website

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The Department of Sociology at Georgia State is one of the most highly ranked (U.S. News & World Report) Sociology departments in the Southeast.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sociology.gsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sociology.gsu.edu performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.284

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sociology.gsu.edu

68 ms

sociology.gsu.edu

677 ms

1NoASgwQlm0x3bzOCL1sZ6zmh5s.js

242 ms

style.css

120 ms

jquery.ui.css

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (95 requests) were addressed to the original Sociology.gsu.edu, 14% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Sociology.gsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 277.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Sociology.gsu.edu main page is 1.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 670.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 253.2 kB

  • Original 314.8 kB
  • After minification 297.6 kB
  • After compression 61.6 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 253.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 86 B

  • Original 670.7 kB
  • After minification 670.6 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. Sociology Gsu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 471.6 kB
  • After minification 470.2 kB
  • After compression 459.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 246.7 kB
  • After minification 246.7 kB
  • After compression 234.2 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. Sociology.gsu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (83%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sociology Gsu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sociology.gsu.edu accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sociology.gsu.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sociology.gsu.edu SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Sociology.gsu.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 Sociology.gsu.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 Sociology Gsu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: