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scs.northwestern.edu

Northwestern University School of Professional Studies

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scs.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 1.8 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

scs.northwestern.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

scs.northwestern.edu

124 ms

sps.northwestern.edu

202 ms

all.css

130 ms

home_page.css

111 ms

custom.all.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scs.northwestern.edu, 79% (58 requests) were made to Sps.northwestern.edu and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) relates to the external source Sps.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

789.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Scs.northwestern.edu main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 750.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 22.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 132.8 kB

  • Original 699.3 kB
  • After minification 566.4 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, Scs Northwestern needs image optimization as it can save up to 132.8 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 553.5 kB

  • Original 750.2 kB
  • After minification 587.0 kB
  • After compression 196.7 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 553.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 109.4 kB

  • Original 126.8 kB
  • After minification 95.8 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. Scs.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (52%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scs 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

scs.northwestern.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scs.northwestern.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Scs.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 Scs 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: