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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

at.pitt.edu

Request Rejected

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

457 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed At.pitt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

at.pitt.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

at.pitt.edu

63 ms

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74 ms

www.at.pitt.edu

255 ms

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49 ms

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70 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original At.pitt.edu, 8% (6 requests) were made to Pittwire.pitt.edu and 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (376 ms) relates to the external source Pittwire.pitt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 560.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of At.pitt.edu main page is 2.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 45.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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. At Pitt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 199.6 kB

  • Original 265.9 kB
  • After minification 189.1 kB
  • After compression 66.2 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 199.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 232.3 kB

  • Original 274.7 kB
  • After minification 266.3 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. At.pitt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 232.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (69%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of At Pitt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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63 ms

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74 ms

www.at.pitt.edu

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255 ms

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49 ms

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70 ms

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110 ms

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106 ms

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104 ms

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33 ms

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107 ms

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110 ms

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115 ms

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Accessibility Review

at.pitt.edu accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

at.pitt.edu best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

at.pitt.edu SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 At.pitt.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 At.pitt.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

at.pitt.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of At Pitt. 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: