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nulink.northwestern.edu

NULink | Welcome

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

775 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nulink.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 966 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nulink.northwestern.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nulink.northwestern.edu

143 ms

style.css

83 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

85 ms

modernizr.js

81 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Nulink.northwestern.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Api.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (512 ms) belongs to the original domain Nulink.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.3 kB (32%)

Content Size

569.9 kB

After Optimization

385.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Nulink.northwestern.edu main page is 569.9 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 360.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 2.4 kB, which is 11% 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 15.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 360.1 kB
  • After minification 312.0 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. Obviously, NULink Northwestern needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 105.6 kB

  • Original 170.3 kB
  • After minification 153.6 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 105.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Nulink.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (43%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NULink 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

nulink.northwestern.edu SEO score

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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 Nulink.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 Nulink.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 NULink 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: