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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

afsws.rpi.edu

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) :: Architecture, Business, Engineering, Humanities, IT & Web Science, Science

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

775 ms

Page Rendered

739 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afsws.rpi.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 128 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

afsws.rpi.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

afsws.rpi.edu

128 ms

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

flexslider.css

53 ms

refresh.css

44 ms

layerslider.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Afsws.rpi.edu, 16% (5 requests) were made to Insiderensselaer.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (581 ms) relates to the external source Insiderensselaer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

470.9 kB

After Optimization

424.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afsws.rpi.edu main page is 470.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 366.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 8.6 kB, which is 27% 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 25.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 366.7 kB
  • After minification 362.6 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. Afsws RPI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 37 B

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Afsws.rpi.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Afsws RPI. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

afsws.rpi.edu

afsws.rpi.edu

128 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

53 ms

refresh.css

refresh.css

44 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

48 ms

css

css

77 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

83 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

47 ms

greensock.js

greensock.js

50 ms

layerslider.transitions.js

layerslider.transitions.js

65 ms

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

73 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

76 ms

alerts.js

alerts.js

98 ms

RPIlogo_white.png

RPIlogo_white.png

13 ms

RayTomlinson-1.jpg

RayTomlinson-1.jpg

580 ms

Canstruction3.jpg

Canstruction3.jpg

581 ms

InnovativePedagogy.jpg

InnovativePedagogy.jpg

540 ms

HibachiHero.jpg

HibachiHero.jpg

533 ms

Snowstorm.jpg

Snowstorm.jpg

529 ms

undergraduate_research.jpg

undergraduate_research.jpg

16 ms

21st_century_2.jpg

21st_century_2.jpg

67 ms

saj14.jpg

saj14.jpg

63 ms

swimming_diving_2016.jpg

swimming_diving_2016.jpg

68 ms

lally5.jpg

lally5.jpg

61 ms

gaming_hub.jpg

gaming_hub.jpg

62 ms

grant_doe.jpg

grant_doe.jpg

51 ms

b2b.jpg

b2b.jpg

69 ms

logoWhite.png

logoWhite.png

109 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

64 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

Accessibility Review

afsws.rpi.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

afsws.rpi.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

afsws.rpi.edu SEO score

95

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Afsws.rpi.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Afsws.rpi.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

afsws.rpi.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Afsws RPI. 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: