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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

search.rice.edu

Rice University » Search

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

268 ms

Resources Loaded

905 ms

Page Rendered

86 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 268 ms and then it took 991 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

search.rice.edu performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

search.rice.edu

268 ms

search.rice.edu

233 ms

css

59 ms

theme.1a0c7b631f6b.css

50 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.d1ec6f4ec8fd.css

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Search.rice.edu, 9% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (268 ms) belongs to the original domain Search.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

129.3 kB

After Optimization

117.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Search.rice.edu main page is 129.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 83.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 1.2 kB, which is 17% 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 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 76.6 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. Search Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 38.2 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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

-48%

Potential reduce by 240 B

  • Original 499 B
  • After minification 456 B
  • After compression 259 B

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. Search.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240 B or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (33%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

search.rice.edu

search.rice.edu

268 ms

search.rice.edu

search.rice.edu

233 ms

css

css

59 ms

theme.1a0c7b631f6b.css

theme.1a0c7b631f6b.css

50 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.d1ec6f4ec8fd.css

jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.d1ec6f4ec8fd.css

99 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.bb381e2d19d8.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.bb381e2d19d8.js

188 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.6d9a17f8e58f.js

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.6d9a17f8e58f.js

233 ms

jquery.history.603dd42f59ca.js

jquery.history.603dd42f59ca.js

146 ms

default.faa36a964e4a.js

default.faa36a964e4a.js

149 ms

jquery.validate.min.3a9863495b58.js

jquery.validate.min.3a9863495b58.js

151 ms

jquery.metadata.1910e4f6f1a0.js

jquery.metadata.1910e4f6f1a0.js

179 ms

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unconventional.1e268a25eafd.jpg

63 ms

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62 ms

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61 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

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146 ms

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loading.348669db7239.gif

119 ms

featured-bg.db2f8b74db10.png

featured-bg.db2f8b74db10.png

103 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

48 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

Accessibility Review

search.rice.edu accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

search.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

SEO Factors

search.rice.edu SEO score

89

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

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Search.rice.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Search.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

search.rice.edu

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