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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

engr.rice.edu

George R. Brown School of Engineering | Rice University

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

544 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

554 ms

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About Website

Visit engr.rice.edu now to see the best up-to-date Engr Rice content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about engr.rice.edu

Rice Engineering empowers the next generation of leaders with strong technical and data science skills, creative problem solving and the ability to integrate across disciplines to solve problems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engr.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 544 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

engr.rice.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engr.rice.edu

544 ms

engineering.rice.edu

64 ms

google_tag.script.js

13 ms

google_tag.script.js

22 ms

css_5NlrvxE2J6CupCLqV6OuYi9OF8Ki4WikoXogC1ax86s.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Engr.rice.edu, 27% (21 requests) were made to Engineering.rice.edu and 26% (20 requests) were made to Staticws.b-cdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (544 ms) belongs to the original domain Engr.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Engr.rice.edu main page is 2.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 92.3 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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 92.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.7 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. Engr Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 200.5 kB

  • Original 582.0 kB
  • After minification 582.0 kB
  • After compression 381.5 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 200.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 136.7 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 100.0 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. Engr.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (69%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engr 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 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

engr.rice.edu

engr.rice.edu

544 ms

engineering.rice.edu

engineering.rice.edu

64 ms

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13 ms

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22 ms

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50 ms

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106 ms

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122 ms

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125 ms

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125 ms

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127 ms

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107 ms

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Accessibility Review

engr.rice.edu accessibility score

91

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.

Best Practices

engr.rice.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

engr.rice.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 Engr.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 Engr.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

engr.rice.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Engr Rice. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: