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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thevarsitynews.net

University of Detroit Mercy (VN)

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thevarsitynews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 58 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thevarsitynews.net performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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58 ms

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56 ms

www.thevarsitynews.net

594 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

18 ms

style.min.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Thevarsitynews.net, 26% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (594 ms) belongs to the original domain Thevarsitynews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

947.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thevarsitynews.net main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 767.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 50.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 767.6 kB
  • After minification 757.8 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. Thevarsitynews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 251.3 kB

  • Original 362.3 kB
  • After minification 355.2 kB
  • After compression 111.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 251.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 74.6 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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. Thevarsitynews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (52%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thevarsitynews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thevarsitynews.net accessibility score

77

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

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thevarsitynews.net 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

SEO Factors

thevarsitynews.net SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Thevarsitynews.net 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 Thevarsitynews.net 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

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