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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

perform.northwestern.edu

Performance Excellence: Human Resources - Northwestern University

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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About Website

Visit perform.northwestern.edu now to see the best up-to-date Perform Northwestern content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about perform.northwestern.edu

Northwestern’s Performance Excellence is a performance management system. It is a year-round experience with three phases, conducted through myHR Learn.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Perform.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 1.7 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

perform.northwestern.edu performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

perform.northwestern.edu

109 ms

150 ms

gtm.js

49 ms

styles.css

956 ms

hr.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Perform.northwestern.edu, 75% (24 requests) were made to Common.northwestern.edu and 13% (4 requests) were made to Hr.northwestern.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (956 ms) relates to the external source Common.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.2 kB (38%)

Content Size

336.9 kB

After Optimization

209.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Perform.northwestern.edu main page is 336.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 197.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 55.5 kB
  • After minification 54.6 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. 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 45.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 79.3 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 117.8 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, Perform Northwestern needs image optimization as it can save up to 79.3 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 552 B

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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. Perform.northwestern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (68%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Perform 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

perform.northwestern.edu

perform.northwestern.edu

109 ms

150 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

49 ms

styles.css

styles.css

956 ms

hr.css

hr.css

35 ms

simplepagination.css

simplepagination.css

62 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

932 ms

swiper.jquery.min.js

swiper.jquery.min.js

941 ms

content-slider.js

content-slider.js

935 ms

siteanalyze_55710.js

siteanalyze_55710.js

43 ms

crescentrings.png

crescentrings.png

153 ms

northwestern.svg

northwestern.svg

60 ms

search.svg

search.svg

62 ms

arrow-down-ltpurple.svg

arrow-down-ltpurple.svg

59 ms

external-link-top-nav.png

external-link-top-nav.png

61 ms

arrow-right-dkpurple.svg

arrow-right-dkpurple.svg

66 ms

arrow-down-white.svg

arrow-down-white.svg

67 ms

arrow-right-ltpurple.svg

arrow-right-ltpurple.svg

67 ms

pdf.png

pdf.png

66 ms

northwestern-university.svg

northwestern-university.svg

107 ms

AkkuratProBold.woff

AkkuratProBold.woff

48 ms

AkkuratProRegular.woff

AkkuratProRegular.woff

82 ms

noto-serif-v16-latin-700italic.woff

noto-serif-v16-latin-700italic.woff

54 ms

Poppins-ExtraLight.woff

Poppins-ExtraLight.woff

82 ms

Poppins-Bold.woff

Poppins-Bold.woff

118 ms

pin-drop.svg

pin-drop.svg

48 ms

mobile-phone.svg

mobile-phone.svg

75 ms

email.svg

email.svg

76 ms

social-media-icons.svg

social-media-icons.svg

77 ms

arrow-right-white.svg

arrow-right-white.svg

70 ms

print.css

print.css

26 ms

Accessibility Review

perform.northwestern.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

perform.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

perform.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 Perform.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 Perform.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

perform.northwestern.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Perform 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: