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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cid.harvard.edu

Center for International Development | Harvard Kennedy School

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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The Center for International Development at Harvard University seeks to advance understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cid.harvard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cid.harvard.edu performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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135 ms

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130 ms

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32 ms

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124 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cid.harvard.edu, 15% (7 requests) were made to and 2% (1 request) were made to Cloud.typography.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) relates to the external source Hks.harvard.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 536.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cid.harvard.edu main page is 7.0 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 a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 72.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.7 kB, which is 15% 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 73.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 407.4 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Cid Harvard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 215.0 kB
  • After minification 215.0 kB
  • After compression 175.2 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 39.7 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 569.5 kB
  • After minification 569.5 kB
  • After compression 553.7 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. Cid.harvard.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (14%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cid Harvard. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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cid

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130 ms

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17 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

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119 ms

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115 ms

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120 ms

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120 ms

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120 ms

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25 ms

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97 ms

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104 ms

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102 ms

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99 ms

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62 ms

Accessibility Review

cid.harvard.edu accessibility score

91

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

cid.harvard.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

cid.harvard.edu SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Cid.harvard.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 Cid.harvard.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

cid.harvard.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cid Harvard. 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: