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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

mss.northwestern.edu

Home: Department of Medical Social Sciences: Feinberg School of Medicine

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

640 ms

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About Website

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Learn about the work we do within the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mss.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 1.8 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

mss.northwestern.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mss.northwestern.edu

66 ms

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122 ms

www.mss.northwestern.edu

143 ms

bootstrap.min.css

78 ms

all.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Mss.northwestern.edu, 21% (12 requests) were made to Deptcommon.fsm.northwestern.edu and 9% (5 requests) were made to Medtargetsystem.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) relates to the external source Feinberg.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mss.northwestern.edu main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 48.2 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. 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 36.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 105.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Mss Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 110.8 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 108.1 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

-60%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 51.1 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. Mss.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mss 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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122 ms

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143 ms

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Accessibility Review

mss.northwestern.edu accessibility score

92

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 IDs are not unique

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

mss.northwestern.edu best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mss.northwestern.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Mss.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 Mss.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

mss.northwestern.edu

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