Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

music.nd.edu

Department of Music | University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

767 ms

Page Rendered

369 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Music.nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

music.nd.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,940 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.183

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

music.nd.edu

30 ms

site.css

4 ms

flexslider.css

10 ms

jquery.min.js

58 ms

site.js

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Music.nd.edu, 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (253 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 476.5 kB (63%)

Content Size

757.5 kB

After Optimization

281.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Music.nd.edu main page is 757.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 308.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 22.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 105.2 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. Music Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 194.2 kB

  • Original 308.4 kB
  • After minification 305.5 kB
  • After compression 114.2 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 194.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 255.4 kB

  • Original 307.3 kB
  • After minification 292.4 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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. Music.nd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (59%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Music 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

music.nd.edu accessibility score

83

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.

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

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Internationalization and localization

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

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

music.nd.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

music.nd.edu SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Music.nd.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Music.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

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