Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

chancellor.pitt.edu

Office of the Chancellor | Office of the Chancellor

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chancellor.pitt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 167 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

chancellor.pitt.edu performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,530 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

167 ms

www.chancellor.pitt.edu

59 ms

css_1I625hnKa03lf0POlSMPTxkc1DPHo_tNrQ1ptQtJ4wk.css

16 ms

css_ZY1X3KhEgsZKiElp4EO-HDf70A4qOVuntcxTrOaoaL4.css

38 ms

753026429d.js

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Chancellor.pitt.edu, 23% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (192 ms) relates to the external source Static.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Chancellor.pitt.edu main page is 1.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.8 kB, which is 18% 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 26.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Chancellor Pitt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 364.3 kB
  • After minification 364.3 kB
  • After compression 331.8 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 194.3 kB
  • After minification 194.3 kB
  • After compression 158.3 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. Chancellor.pitt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (40%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chancellor 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chancellor.pitt.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

chancellor.pitt.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

chancellor.pitt.edu SEO score

76

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Chancellor.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 Chancellor.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

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