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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

csgsa.rice.edu

Computer Science GSA | Information and Updates from the CS Graduate Students Association

Page Load Speed

867 ms in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

512 ms

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Csgsa.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 613 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

csgsa.rice.edu performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

csgsa.rice.edu

254 ms

reset.css

68 ms

text.css

103 ms

960.css

92 ms

rice_web.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Csgsa.rice.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (254 ms) belongs to the original domain Csgsa.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.2 kB (76%)

Content Size

22.7 kB

After Optimization

5.5 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Csgsa.rice.edu main page is 22.7 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 16.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 6.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 2.0 kB, which is 29% 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 4.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 13.3 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Csgsa.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (36%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CS GSA 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

csgsa.rice.edu

csgsa.rice.edu

254 ms

reset.css

reset.css

68 ms

text.css

text.css

103 ms

960.css

960.css

92 ms

rice_web.css

rice_web.css

93 ms

logo_rice3.gif

logo_rice3.gif

93 ms

btn_go.gif

btn_go.gif

92 ms

bar.gif

bar.gif

110 ms

header.gif

header.gif

91 ms

greyarrow2.gif

greyarrow2.gif

48 ms

bottom.gif

bottom.gif

48 ms

rice_print.css

rice_print.css

56 ms

Accessibility Review

csgsa.rice.edu accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

csgsa.rice.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

csgsa.rice.edu SEO score

57

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Csgsa.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 Csgsa.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

csgsa.rice.edu

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