Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

rice360.rice.edu

Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies | Rice360 - Institute for Global Health Technologies | Rice University

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

648 ms

Page Rendered

297 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rice360.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 945 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rice360.rice.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.262

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rice360.rice.edu

102 ms

js

107 ms

google_tag.script.js

22 ms

css_HtNPdwmy22ORPNCrGKGei9y8y34o9NosVbjZlZcNAlI.css

66 ms

c22e70c3df.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Rice360.rice.edu, 36% (21 requests) were made to Staticws.b-cdn.net and 16% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (166 ms) relates to the external source Cse.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Rice360.rice.edu main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 107.7 kB

  • Original 141.1 kB
  • After minification 135.1 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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 107.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Rice360 Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 355.8 kB
  • After minification 355.8 kB
  • After compression 351.6 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. Rice360.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

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rice360 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.

Accessibility Review

rice360.rice.edu accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

rice360.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

rice360.rice.edu SEO score

97

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 Rice360.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 Rice360.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Rice360 Rice. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: