Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

physio.northwestern.edu

Home: Department of Neuroscience: Feinberg School of Medicine

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

531 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Physio.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

physio.northwestern.edu performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

physio.northwestern.edu

82 ms

physio.northwestern.edu

107 ms

www.physio.northwestern.edu

127 ms

177 ms

bootstrap.min.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Physio.northwestern.edu, 19% (10 requests) were made to Feinberg.northwestern.edu and 13% (7 requests) were made to Deptcommon.fsm.northwestern.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (427 ms) relates to the external source Common.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

987.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Physio.northwestern.edu main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 852.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 35.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 852.9 kB
  • After minification 847.6 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. Physio Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 109.2 kB
  • After minification 109.1 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. Physio.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (39%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Physio 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

physio.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

physio.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

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