Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

catalogs.rutgers.edu

Catalogs | Rutgers University

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

426 ms

Page Rendered

417 ms

catalogs.rutgers.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Catalogs Rutgers content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about catalogs.rutgers.edu

Rutgers catalogs serve as the source for degree and major requirements, as well as academic policies and procedures.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catalogs.rutgers.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 843 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catalogs.rutgers.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

catalogs.rutgers.edu

173 ms

catalogs

86 ms

css_rEI_5cK_B9hB4So2yZUtr5weuEV3heuAllCDE6XsIkI.css

11 ms

css_ZLfWbOs9mupCLotSIKBnphNU5bgwmdhGE9sQm7DSlEY.css

7 ms

css_S5eIRnYdcIsjinmpKHeJpOMXNn6oaSDlirY265wQ8Xo.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Catalogs.rutgers.edu, 67% (14 requests) were made to Rutgers.edu and 14% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (173 ms) belongs to the original domain Catalogs.rutgers.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Catalogs.rutgers.edu main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 953.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 34.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 953.7 kB
  • After minification 928.2 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. Catalogs Rutgers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 158.8 kB
  • After minification 158.7 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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 102.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Catalogs.rutgers.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (63%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catalogs Rutgers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

catalogs.rutgers.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

catalogs.rutgers.edu best practices score

85

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

catalogs.rutgers.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Catalogs.rutgers.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 Catalogs.rutgers.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 Catalogs Rutgers. 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: