Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

stonybrook.edu

Stony Brook University, New York

Page Load Speed

53.7 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

29.8 sec

Page Rendered

23.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stonybrook.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 53.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stonybrook.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,720 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stonybrook.edu

147 ms

www.stonybrook.edu

2256 ms

normalize.min.1465573115.css

1993 ms

main.1502463467.css

707 ms

new-brand.1501239456.css

544 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Stonybrook.edu, 10% (14 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 1% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Stonybrook.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (24%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Stonybrook.edu main page is 4.5 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. 80% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 81.7 kB

  • Original 93.6 kB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.6 kB, which is 30% 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 81.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Stony Brook images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 455.6 kB

  • Original 652.2 kB
  • After minification 556.6 kB
  • After compression 196.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 455.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 487.3 kB

  • Original 550.9 kB
  • After minification 499.5 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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. Stonybrook.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 487.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (71%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stony Brook. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 48 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stonybrook.edu accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

stonybrook.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

SEO Factors

stonybrook.edu SEO score

95

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 Stonybrook.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 Stonybrook.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 Stony Brook. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: