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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

blogs.iwu.edu

Blogs at Illinois Wesleyan | Just another WordPress site

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

529 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.iwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.iwu.edu performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.iwu.edu

81 ms

blogs.iwu.edu

2102 ms

style.css

28 ms

masterOU.css

148 ms

wp-embed.min.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.iwu.edu, 26% (9 requests) were made to Iwu.edu and 11% (4 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Blogs.iwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 227.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

560.5 kB

After Optimization

332.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.iwu.edu main page is 560.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 411.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 15.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 122.8 kB

  • Original 411.6 kB
  • After minification 288.8 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, Blogs Iwu needs image optimization as it can save up to 122.8 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 52.4 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 27.2 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 74.0 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Blogs.iwu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Iwu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.iwu.edu

blogs.iwu.edu

81 ms

blogs.iwu.edu

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2102 ms

style.css

style.css

28 ms

masterOU.css

masterOU.css

148 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

51 ms

masterOU.css

masterOU.css

109 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

55 ms

ga.js

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71 ms

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32 ms

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210 ms

blogs.jpg

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213 ms

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211 ms

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213 ms

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212 ms

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12 ms

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22 ms

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33 ms

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57 ms

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56 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

38 ms

Accessibility Review

blogs.iwu.edu accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blogs.iwu.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

SEO Factors

blogs.iwu.edu SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.iwu.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 Blogs.iwu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

blogs.iwu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blogs Iwu. 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: