Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

law.harvard.edu

Home - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

930 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Law.harvard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

law.harvard.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.461

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hls.harvard.edu

1047 ms

fonts.css

461 ms

widget-calendar-full.css

58 ms

tribe-events-pro-full.min.css

68 ms

master.min.css

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Law.harvard.edu, 29% (20 requests) were made to and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Hls.harvard.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (29%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Law.harvard.edu main page is 3.8 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. 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 69.1 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 57.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Law Harvard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 433.6 kB

  • Original 662.1 kB
  • After minification 659.5 kB
  • After compression 228.5 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 433.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 540.3 kB

  • Original 907.6 kB
  • After minification 905.0 kB
  • After compression 367.3 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. Law.harvard.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 540.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (48%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Law 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

law.harvard.edu accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

law.harvard.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

law.harvard.edu SEO score

85

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

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 Law.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 Law.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

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