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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

swat.tamu.edu

SWAT | Soil & Water Assessment Tool

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

468 ms

Resources Loaded

896 ms

Page Rendered

366 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing SWAT Tamu content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about swat.tamu.edu

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a small watershed to river basin-scale model to simulate the quality and quantity of surface and ground water and predict the environmental impact of land ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swat.tamu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 468 ms and then it took 1.3 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

swat.tamu.edu performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

swat.tamu.edu

468 ms

css

27 ms

SWATStyles

236 ms

menu-icon.png

120 ms

swat-logo.png

287 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Swat.tamu.edu, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) belongs to the original domain Swat.tamu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.5 kB (35%)

Content Size

241.3 kB

After Optimization

155.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Swat.tamu.edu main page is 241.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 139.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 17.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 139.1 kB
  • After minification 119.2 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. Obviously, SWAT Tamu needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 48.7 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 76.8 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 48.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (41%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SWAT Tamu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

swat.tamu.edu

swat.tamu.edu

468 ms

css

css

27 ms

SWATStyles

SWATStyles

236 ms

menu-icon.png

menu-icon.png

120 ms

swat-logo.png

swat-logo.png

287 ms

search.png

search.png

110 ms

email.png

email.png

110 ms

group.png

group.png

178 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

136 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

24 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

40 ms

jquery.plugins.js

jquery.plugins.js

243 ms

swat.js

swat.js

200 ms

china-2016-background-sm.jpg

china-2016-background-sm.jpg

200 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

179 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

125 ms

white-triangle.png

white-triangle.png

85 ms

zip.png

zip.png

84 ms

pdf.png

pdf.png

124 ms

agrilife-research.png

agrilife-research.png

175 ms

tamu.png

tamu.png

123 ms

ars.png

ars.png

173 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

57 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

122 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

25 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

34 ms

Accessibility Review

swat.tamu.edu accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

swat.tamu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

swat.tamu.edu SEO score

88

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Swat.tamu.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 Swat.tamu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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