Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

sysnews.ncsu.edu

Portal Landing - NCSU - IT Service Portal

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

102 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sysnews.ncsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 2.2 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

sysnews.ncsu.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sysnews.ncsu.edu

53 ms

sysnews.ncsu.edu

1976 ms

style.css

52 ms

iframe-red.css

50 ms

iframe.html

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Sysnews.ncsu.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Sysnews.ncsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.4 kB (77%)

Content Size

13.6 kB

After Optimization

3.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sysnews.ncsu.edu main page is 13.6 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 10.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 2.2 kB, which is 21% 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 8.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 815 B

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. Sysnews.ncsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sysnews NCSU. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

sysnews.ncsu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sysnews.ncsu.edu best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

sysnews.ncsu.edu SEO score

75

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sysnews.ncsu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Sysnews.ncsu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sysnews NCSU. 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: