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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ardent.mit.edu

Richard de Neufville - Professor of Engineering Systems & Faculty - MIT

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ardent.mit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ardent.mit.edu performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ardent.mit.edu

184 ms

ardent.mit.edu

376 ms

style.min.css

127 ms

css

33 ms

all.min.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Ardent.mit.edu, 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (376 ms) belongs to the original domain Ardent.mit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

425.2 kB

After Optimization

385.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ardent.mit.edu main page is 425.2 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 247.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 28.0 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 28.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 247.4 kB
  • After minification 237.5 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. Ar De Nt MIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 78.9 kB
  • After minification 78.9 kB
  • After compression 78.8 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Ardent.mit.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (71%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ar De Nt MIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ardent.mit.edu

ardent.mit.edu

184 ms

ardent.mit.edu

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376 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

127 ms

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33 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

111 ms

style.css

style.css

102 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

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84 ms

frontend.min.css

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130 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

86 ms

post-317.css

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164 ms

global.css

global.css

167 ms

post-2.css

post-2.css

180 ms

css

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48 ms

jquery.min.js

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230 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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213 ms

production.min.js

production.min.js

209 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

280 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

306 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

308 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

338 ms

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340 ms

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139 ms

ProfdeNeufville-ThesisSigning.jpg

ProfdeNeufville-ThesisSigning.jpg

219 ms

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133 ms

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135 ms

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189 ms

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16 ms

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19 ms

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fa-solid-900.woff

215 ms

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206 ms

Accessibility Review

ardent.mit.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

ardent.mit.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

ardent.mit.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Ardent.mit.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 Ardent.mit.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

ardent.mit.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ar De Nt MIT. 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: