Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

pls.nd.edu

Program of Liberal Studies | University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

599 ms in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

315 ms

Page Rendered

200 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pls.nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 515 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pls.nd.edu performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pls.nd.edu

84 ms

css

22 ms

ndt.css

4 ms

site.css

9 ms

jquery.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Pls.nd.edu, 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (99 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

968.1 kB

After Optimization

827.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Pls.nd.edu main page is 968.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 796.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 26.5 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 17.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 796.0 kB
  • After minification 743.1 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. Pls Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 84.0 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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 21.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Pls.nd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (19%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pls 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pls.nd.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

pls.nd.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

pls.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pls.nd.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 Pls.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 Pls 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: