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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

americanstudies.nd.edu

Department of American Studies | University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

766 ms in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

305 ms

Page Rendered

402 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanstudies.nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 707 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanstudies.nd.edu performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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59 ms

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25 ms

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12 ms

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19 ms

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98 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Americanstudies.nd.edu, 25% (6 requests) were made to Static.nd.edu and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (103 ms) relates to the external source Static.nd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americanstudies.nd.edu main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 52.0 kB
  • After minification 50.2 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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 35.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 102.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. American Studies Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 470 B

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 16.6 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. Americanstudies.nd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (22%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Studies Nd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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59 ms

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25 ms

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12 ms

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19 ms

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98 ms

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60 ms

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17 ms

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50 ms

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35 ms

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Accessibility Review

americanstudies.nd.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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

americanstudies.nd.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

americanstudies.nd.edu SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americanstudies.nd.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 Americanstudies.nd.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of American Studies Nd. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: