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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ceve.rice.edu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Rice University

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

728 ms

Page Rendered

378 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ceve.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ceve.rice.edu performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ceve.rice.edu

223 ms

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52 ms

google_tag.script.js

13 ms

css_HtNPdwmy22ORPNCrGKGei9y8y34o9NosVbjZlZcNAlI.css

12 ms

c22e70c3df.css

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ceve.rice.edu, 36% (21 requests) were made to Staticws.b-cdn.net and 25% (15 requests) were made to Cee.rice.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Cee.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ceve.rice.edu main page is 1.8 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 57.9 kB

  • Original 79.7 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 57.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Ceve Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 356.8 kB
  • After minification 356.8 kB
  • After compression 353.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 100.2 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. Ceve.rice.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (71%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ceve Rice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ceve.rice.edu

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223 ms

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52 ms

google_tag.script.js

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13 ms

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12 ms

c22e70c3df.css

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117 ms

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55 ms

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73 ms

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70 ms

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76 ms

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69 ms

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70 ms

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77 ms

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71 ms

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113 ms

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117 ms

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71 ms

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109 ms

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112 ms

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119 ms

news.js

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117 ms

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115 ms

profiles.js

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116 ms

related-articles.js

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117 ms

extras.js

extras.js

118 ms

ping

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111 ms

page.js

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111 ms

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36 ms

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31 ms

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211 ms

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29 ms

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66 ms

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9 ms

Accessibility Review

ceve.rice.edu accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ceve.rice.edu best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ceve.rice.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 Ceve.rice.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 Ceve.rice.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

ceve.rice.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ceve Rice. 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: