Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

sciencefestival.msu.edu

Home Page—Science Festival—Michigan State University

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

498 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

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About Website

Welcome to sciencefestival.msu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Science Festival Msu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about sciencefestival.msu.edu

The MSU Science Festival is a Free multi-day celebration of science, fueled by some of the basic elements essential to scientific inquiry: curiosity, wonder, and discovery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciencefestival.msu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 498 ms and then it took 3.2 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

sciencefestival.msu.edu performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,740 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.401

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciencefestival.msu.edu

498 ms

SciFest.css

477 ms

jquery-1.11.3.js

673 ms

jquery.google-universal-analytics.js

197 ms

jquery.link-decorators2.js

203 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Sciencefestival.msu.edu, 10% (6 requests) were made to Outreach.msu.edu and 8% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Outreach.msu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 675.9 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Sciencefestival.msu.edu main page is 1.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 738.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.5 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 738.8 kB
  • After minification 713.7 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. Science Festival Msu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 369.0 kB

  • Original 450.5 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 81.5 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 369.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 267.6 kB

  • Original 505.0 kB
  • After minification 504.0 kB
  • After compression 237.4 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. Sciencefestival.msu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.6 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (28%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science Festival 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sciencefestival.msu.edu accessibility score

96

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

sciencefestival.msu.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

sciencefestival.msu.edu SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sciencefestival.msu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sciencefestival.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 data is detected on the main page of Science Festival Msu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: