Access cte.ncsu.edu. Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE)

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

cte.ncsu.edu

168 ms

CTE.css

88 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

102 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

jquery.cycle.all.latest.js

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Cte.ncsu.edu, 48% (35 requests) were made to Itre.ncsu.edu and 3% (2 requests) were made to Icoet.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Itre.ncsu.edu.

Content Size

184.8 kB

After Optimization

157.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Cte.ncsu.edu main page is 184.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 118.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

Original 30.3 kB
After minification 24.2 kB
After compression 6.2 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 6.1 kB, which is 20% 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 24.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

Original 118.3 kB
After minification 116.3 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. CTE Ncsu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

Original 36.2 kB
After minification 36.2 kB
After compression 34.9 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.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CTE Ncsu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Issues

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

High

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

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

EN
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cte.ncsu.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 Cte.ncsu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

cte.ncsu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CTE Ncsu. 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE)

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

cte.ncsu.edu

CTE.css

AC_RunActiveContent.js

jquery.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.latest.js

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

cte.ncsu.edu

CTE.css

AC_RunActiveContent.js

jquery.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.latest.js

counter.js

CTE.css

header-black.jpg

header-spacer.gif

TopBarTealBKGD.jpg

twitter-b.png

CSS-National-Dialog-2-small.gif

ICOET-logo-icon.gif

SideNavBKGD.jpg

TopTealSlice.jpg

TopBarBrown.jpg

BTN-Home.jpg

BTN-about.jpg

BTN-research.jpg

BTN-Education.jpg

BTN-techtransfer.jpg

BTN-publications.jpg

BTN-lists.jpg

BTN-contact.jpg

Teal40pxSpacer.jpg

BTN-HotTopics-glow.jpg

NAV-rule.jpg

BTN-newsletter.jpg

BTN-TRBpartners.jpg

BTN-links.jpg

BTN-Icoet.jpg

Itre_logo.gif

NAV-btmCap.jpg

CHG-indexTown.jpg

2011-Spring-home.jpg

CTE-Annual-Report-2010-2011-home.jpg

Going-the-Distance-Together-small.gif

footer40px-teal.jpg

NCSULogo-bw.jpg

t.php

ICOET-logo-icon.gif

header-black.jpg

BTN-HotTopics-glow-RO.jpg

BTN-Home-RO.jpg