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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

irb.pitt.edu

Request Rejected

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

378 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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About Website

Visit irb.pitt.edu now to see the best up-to-date Irb Pitt content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about irb.pitt.edu

The University of Pittsburgh is among the nation's most distinguished comprehensive universities, with a wide variety of high-quality programs in both the arts and sciences and professional fields.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irb.pitt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 378 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

irb.pitt.edu performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irb.pitt.edu

378 ms

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72 ms

www.irb.pitt.edu

390 ms

www.irb.pitt.edu

144 ms

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27 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Irb.pitt.edu, 18% (10 requests) were made to Hrpo.pitt.edu and 7% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (626 ms) relates to the external source Calendar.pitt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irb.pitt.edu main page is 4.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 36.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 610.2 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Obviously, Irb Pitt needs image optimization as it can save up to 610.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 152.5 kB

  • Original 188.6 kB
  • After minification 125.3 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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 152.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 323.9 kB

  • Original 387.2 kB
  • After minification 376.6 kB
  • After compression 63.3 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. Irb.pitt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (41%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irb 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 11 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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irb.pitt.edu

378 ms

irb.pitt.edu

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72 ms

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390 ms

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144 ms

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27 ms

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Accessibility Review

irb.pitt.edu accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

irb.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

irb.pitt.edu SEO score

91

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 Irb.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 Irb.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

irb.pitt.edu

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