Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

med.psu.edu

Welcome - Penn State College of Medicine

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

385 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

med.psu.edu screenshot

About Website

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The Penn State College of Medicine is part of one of the leading academic medical centers in the country. Offering an array of programs for medical education, physician assistants, graduate students a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Med.psu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 385 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

med.psu.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

385 ms

aui.css

220 ms

main.css

187 ms

main.css

102 ms

main.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Med.psu.edu, 45% (23 requests) were made to Pennstatehershey.org and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (385 ms) belongs to the original domain Med.psu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (71%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

504.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Med.psu.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 957.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 41.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 54.8 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. Med Psu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 629.7 kB

  • Original 957.5 kB
  • After minification 950.2 kB
  • After compression 327.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 629.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 558.2 kB

  • Original 668.6 kB
  • After minification 666.4 kB
  • After compression 110.3 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. Med.psu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 558.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (76%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Med Psu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

med.psu.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Best Practices

med.psu.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

med.psu.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Med.psu.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 Med.psu.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 Med Psu. 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: