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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

che.sc.edu

Department of Chemical Engineering - College of Engineering and Computing | University of South Carolina

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

953 ms

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Che Sc content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about che.sc.edu

Provides an overview of the chemical engineering degrees, people and research programs at the University of South Carolina.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Che.sc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 71 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

che.sc.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.169

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

che.sc.edu

71 ms

che.sc.edu

97 ms

index.php

94 ms

index.php

76 ms

flexslider.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Che.sc.edu, 71% (29 requests) were made to Sc.edu and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) relates to the external source Sc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

452.8 kB

After Optimization

374.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Che.sc.edu main page is 452.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 256.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 65.1 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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 65.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 256.9 kB
  • After minification 256.9 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. Che Sc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 88.6 kB
  • After minification 88.6 kB
  • After compression 85.0 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 30.6 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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. Che.sc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.2 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (58%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Che Sc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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che.sc.edu

71 ms

che.sc.edu

che.sc.edu

97 ms

index.php

index.php

94 ms

index.php

index.php

76 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

66 ms

global.css

global.css

93 ms

site.css

site.css

69 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

89 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

91 ms

mediaqueries.css

mediaqueries.css

91 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

144 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

159 ms

direct-edit.js

direct-edit.js

160 ms

js

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63 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js

20 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

225 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

211 ms

script.js

script.js

233 ms

leftnav.js

leftnav.js

327 ms

ga.js

ga.js

75 ms

gtm.js

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191 ms

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160 ms

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217 ms

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150 ms

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244 ms

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224 ms

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226 ms

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230 ms

chemical_evertrue_callout.png

chemical_evertrue_callout.png

345 ms

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315 ms

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280 ms

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273 ms

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32 ms

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129 ms

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210 ms

ornament_fan.svg

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145 ms

clarity.js

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16 ms

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c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

che.sc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

che.sc.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

che.sc.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Che.sc.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 Che.sc.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

che.sc.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Che Sc. 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: