Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

gsc.mit.edu

MIT Graduate Student Council

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

658 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gsc.mit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 658 ms and then it took 1.4 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Gsc.mit.edu rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

gsc.mit.edu performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gsc.mit.edu

658 ms

font-awesome.min.css

52 ms

bootstrap.min.css

78 ms

non-responsive.css

36 ms

gsc.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Gsc.mit.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (658 ms) belongs to the original domain Gsc.mit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Gsc.mit.edu main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 29.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. 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 24.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 915.6 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, Gsc MIT needs image optimization as it can save up to 133.8 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 220.1 kB

  • Original 308.9 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 88.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 220.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 148.4 kB

  • Original 179.4 kB
  • After minification 165.3 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Gsc.mit.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 148.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gsc 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gsc.mit.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

gsc.mit.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

gsc.mit.edu SEO score

62

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

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 Gsc.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 Gsc.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gsc 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: