Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

law.northwestern.edu

Northwestern Law: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

606 ms

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About Website

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Northwestern Pritzker Law offers a number of degrees and programs of study, from primary JD programs to master in laws (LLM) to our Master of Science in Law (MSL) degree. The Law School is located in ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Law.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

law.northwestern.edu performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

law.northwestern.edu

57 ms

www.law.northwestern.edu

261 ms

graphics.css

117 ms

bootstrap.css

169 ms

jquery-ui.css

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Law.northwestern.edu, 67% (48 requests) were made to Wwws.law.northwestern.edu and 13% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) relates to the external source Wwws.law.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 947.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Law.northwestern.edu main page is 4.1 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. 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. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 161.1 kB

  • Original 170.2 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 123.7 kB, which is 73% 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 161.1 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 63.7 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Law Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 435.1 kB

  • Original 642.9 kB
  • After minification 462.1 kB
  • After compression 207.8 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 435.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 287.2 kB

  • Original 334.8 kB
  • After minification 259.1 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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. Law.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (52%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Law Northwestern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

law.northwestern.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

law.northwestern.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

law.northwestern.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Law.northwestern.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 Law.northwestern.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 Law Northwestern. 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: