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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

staff.lib.ncsu.edu

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Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Staff.lib.ncsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

staff.lib.ncsu.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

staff.lib.ncsu.edu

88 ms

policies-procedures

574 ms

analytics.js

56 ms

js

123 ms

css_4iquwSW0K5W7hNPVfweBMkb5Uh0PDugLj-rWnSs5F6k.css

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Staff.lib.ncsu.edu, 28% (5 requests) were made to Lib.ncsu.edu and 22% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.ncsu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (574 ms) relates to the external source Lib.ncsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.1 kB (31%)

Content Size

236.1 kB

After Optimization

163.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Staff.lib.ncsu.edu main page is 236.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 100.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 100.6 kB
  • After minification 87.9 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.7 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 63.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 38.9 kB
  • After minification 31.9 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, Staff Lib NC Su needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 75.6 kB
  • After minification 75.6 kB
  • After compression 74.1 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. Staff.lib.ncsu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (54%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Staff Lib NC Su. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

staff.lib.ncsu.edu

staff.lib.ncsu.edu

88 ms

policies-procedures

policies-procedures

574 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

56 ms

js

js

123 ms

css_4iquwSW0K5W7hNPVfweBMkb5Uh0PDugLj-rWnSs5F6k.css

css_4iquwSW0K5W7hNPVfweBMkb5Uh0PDugLj-rWnSs5F6k.css

101 ms

css_lRPT81J6C7YJeCQjWtZVbYHNOPHJg5UyGxmTszxQkZY.css

css_lRPT81J6C7YJeCQjWtZVbYHNOPHJg5UyGxmTszxQkZY.css

224 ms

header.css

header.css

357 ms

include.css

include.css

109 ms

header-app.js

header-app.js

336 ms

footer.css

footer.css

318 ms

js_sxjT-n1MF1XQFZARmMF1T0GVmUYzVR4QWZnJ_sGblDY.js

js_sxjT-n1MF1XQFZARmMF1T0GVmUYzVR4QWZnJ_sGblDY.js

234 ms

collect

collect

109 ms

snapcode.png

snapcode.png

116 ms

collect

collect

568 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

281 ms

4d1e8df3-6c45-428d-a522-84c8a6a4e533.woff

4d1e8df3-6c45-428d-a522-84c8a6a4e533.woff

93 ms

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b993da84-c1f6-474a-8f00-8aa797b3de8f.woff

93 ms

47a5b741-405e-4d03-ba4a-e50cc7716ddf.woff

47a5b741-405e-4d03-ba4a-e50cc7716ddf.woff

85 ms

Accessibility Review

staff.lib.ncsu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

staff.lib.ncsu.edu best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

staff.lib.ncsu.edu SEO score

89

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

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 Staff.lib.ncsu.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 Staff.lib.ncsu.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

staff.lib.ncsu.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Staff Lib NC Su. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: