Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

history.msu.edu

Department of History – College of Social Science

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed History.msu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

history.msu.edu performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.395

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history.msu.edu

296 ms

style.css

76 ms

css

23 ms

48f97e99_ai1ec_parsed_css.css

234 ms

font-awesome.min.css

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original History.msu.edu, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) belongs to the original domain History.msu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 861.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of History.msu.edu main page is 2.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 67.5 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 63.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 76.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. History Msu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 331.3 kB

  • Original 466.9 kB
  • After minification 449.0 kB
  • After compression 135.7 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 331.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 390.5 kB

  • Original 548.5 kB
  • After minification 503.0 kB
  • After compression 158.0 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. History.msu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 390.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (63%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History Msu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

history.msu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

history.msu.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

history.msu.edu SEO score

75

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

Links are not crawlable

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 History.msu.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 History.msu.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 History Msu. 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: