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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

sps.northwestern.edu

Northwestern University School of Professional Studies (SPS):

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sps.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 2.1 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

sps.northwestern.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,430 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.241

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sps.northwestern.edu

72 ms

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156 ms

gtm.js

77 ms

teads-fellow.js

42 ms

events.js

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Sps.northwestern.edu, 21% (13 requests) were made to Common.northwestern.edu and 18% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 113.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

769.1 kB

After Optimization

655.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sps.northwestern.edu main page is 769.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 663.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 42.1 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 31.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 663.8 kB
  • After minification 583.6 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. Obviously, SPS Northwestern needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 675 B

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 23.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Sps.northwestern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (63%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SPS 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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72 ms

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156 ms

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77 ms

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42 ms

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100 ms

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141 ms

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Accessibility Review

sps.northwestern.edu accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

sps.northwestern.edu best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sps.northwestern.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sps.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 Sps.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

sps.northwestern.edu

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