Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

civ.neu.edu

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department - Northeastern University

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

441 ms

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Civil and Environmental Engineering focuses on urban engineering: environmental health, civil infrastructure security, sustainable resource.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Civ.neu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 2.9 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

civ.neu.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.206

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

civ.neu.edu

84 ms

cee.northeastern.edu

975 ms

index.umd.js

115 ms

index.umd.js

118 ms

browser-update.js

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Civ.neu.edu, 60% (37 requests) were made to Cee.northeastern.edu and 16% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (975 ms) relates to the external source Cee.northeastern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.0 kB (51%)

Content Size

157.3 kB

After Optimization

76.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Civ.neu.edu main page is 157.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 95.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 80.4 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 81.3 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 14.6 kB, which is 15% 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 80.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 535 B

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.8 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Civ.neu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (46%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Civ Neu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

civ.neu.edu accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

civ.neu.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

civ.neu.edu SEO score

85

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 Civ.neu.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 Civ.neu.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 Civ Neu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: