Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

newsinfo.nd.edu

Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

887 ms

newsinfo.nd.edu screenshot

About Website

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Notre Dame News gathers and disseminates information that enhances understanding of the University’s academic and research mission and its accomplishments as a Catholic institute of higher learning.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newsinfo.nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newsinfo.nd.edu performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newsinfo.nd.edu

12 ms

news.nd.edu

19 ms

hotjar-37867.js

6 ms

site.css

5 ms

addthis_widget.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Newsinfo.nd.edu, 32% (50 requests) were made to News.nd.edu and 23% (37 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Nd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (28%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Newsinfo.nd.edu main page is 3.8 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. 85% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 128.5 kB
  • After minification 122.3 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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 93.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 111.7 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. News Info Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 560.4 kB

  • Original 853.3 kB
  • After minification 848.9 kB
  • After compression 292.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 560.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 285.2 kB

  • Original 342.1 kB
  • After minification 326.6 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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. Newsinfo.nd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (44%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

83

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Info 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 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

newsinfo.nd.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

newsinfo.nd.edu best practices score

77

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

newsinfo.nd.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newsinfo.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 Newsinfo.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 description is not detected on the main page of News Info Nd. 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: