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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

politicalscience.nd.edu

Department of Political Science | University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

966 ms in total

First Response

7 ms

Resources Loaded

431 ms

Page Rendered

528 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Politicalscience.nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 7 ms and then it took 959 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

politicalscience.nd.edu performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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7 ms

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17 ms

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10 ms

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84 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Politicalscience.nd.edu, 7% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms and 7% (2 requests) were made to Static.nd.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (212 ms) belongs to the original domain Politicalscience.nd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

702.4 kB

After Optimization

659.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Politicalscience.nd.edu main page is 702.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 595.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 57.7 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 40.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19 B

  • Original 595.7 kB
  • After minification 595.7 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. Political Science Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 661 B

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. Politicalscience.nd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (24%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Political Science 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.

Network Requests Diagram

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17 ms

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14 ms

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84 ms

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14 ms

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Accessibility Review

politicalscience.nd.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

politicalscience.nd.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

SEO Factors

politicalscience.nd.edu SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Politicalscience.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 Politicalscience.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Political Science Nd. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: