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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

hcdu.org

Debate | Harvard College Debating Union | Cambridge, MA

Page Load Speed

553 ms in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

474 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hcdu.org homepage info - get ready to check Hcdu best content right away, or after learning these important things about hcdu.org

Established in the fall of 1981, the Harvard College Debating Union (HCDU) is Harvard University's only internationally competitive debate association. We are the current world debate champions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hcdu.org page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 474 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

hcdu.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hcdu.org

79 ms

minified.js

49 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

87 ms

polyfill.min.js

91 ms

thunderbolt-commons.b70ee867.bundle.min.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hcdu.org, 50% (12 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 38% (9 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (166 ms) relates to the external source Static.parastorage.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 444.4 kB (47%)

Content Size

954.1 kB

After Optimization

509.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Hcdu.org main page is 954.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 449.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 355.3 kB

  • Original 449.1 kB
  • After minification 447.3 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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 355.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 200.7 kB
  • After minification 159.7 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. Obviously, Hcdu needs image optimization as it can save up to 41.0 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 304.3 kB
  • After minification 304.3 kB
  • After compression 256.2 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 48.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hcdu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.hcdu.org

www.hcdu.org

79 ms

minified.js

minified.js

49 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

focus-within-polyfill.js

87 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

91 ms

thunderbolt-commons.b70ee867.bundle.min.js

thunderbolt-commons.b70ee867.bundle.min.js

81 ms

main.317ed945.bundle.min.js

main.317ed945.bundle.min.js

166 ms

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

79 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

166 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

81 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

166 ms

siteTags.bundle.min.js

siteTags.bundle.min.js

80 ms

HCDU.png

HCDU.png

114 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

108 ms

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50 ms

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49 ms

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50 ms

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56 ms

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67 ms

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56 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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66 ms

Accessibility Review

hcdu.org accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hcdu.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hcdu.org SEO score

91

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

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 Hcdu.org 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 Hcdu.org 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

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