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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

writingcenter.tamu.edu

Home - The University Writing Center

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

593 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writingcenter.tamu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 593 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writingcenter.tamu.edu performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.207

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writingcenter.tamu.edu

593 ms

GetResource.ashx

193 ms

GetResource.ashx

218 ms

GetResource.ashx

211 ms

GetResource.ashx

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Writingcenter.tamu.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (738 ms) belongs to the original domain Writingcenter.tamu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 517.8 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

673.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Writingcenter.tamu.edu main page is 1.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 508.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 63.1 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 51.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 508.7 kB
  • After minification 501.9 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. Writing Center Tamu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 267.9 kB

  • Original 387.3 kB
  • After minification 380.8 kB
  • After compression 119.4 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 267.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 191.2 kB

  • Original 232.0 kB
  • After minification 231.9 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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. Writingcenter.tamu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 191.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writing Center 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

writingcenter.tamu.edu

writingcenter.tamu.edu

593 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

193 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

218 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

211 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

305 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

214 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

300 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

303 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

393 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

348 ms

PortalTemplate.aspx

PortalTemplate.aspx

346 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

435 ms

BindMENU.js

BindMENU.js

388 ms

fix-responsive-WP8.js

fix-responsive-WP8.js

360 ms

populateSelectNav.js

populateSelectNav.js

463 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

5 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

63 ms

logo.aspx

logo.aspx

116 ms

youtube_large.png

youtube_large.png

168 ms

pinterest_large.png

pinterest_large.png

170 ms

instagram_large.png

instagram_large.png

171 ms

twitter_large.png

twitter_large.png

170 ms

facebook_large.png

facebook_large.png

313 ms

Octopus_Banner.jpg

Octopus_Banner.jpg

738 ms

inperson.png

inperson.png

411 ms

handoutsandguides.png

handoutsandguides.png

316 ms

onlineconsultations_1.aspx

onlineconsultations_1.aspx

458 ms

workshops-studios.png

workshops-studios.png

358 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

394 ms

css

css

55 ms

search.png

search.png

99 ms

tamucal-icons.png

tamucal-icons.png

99 ms

tamucal-rss.png

tamucal-rss.png

98 ms

AnalyticsLog.aspx

AnalyticsLog.aspx

132 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

278 ms

Accessibility Review

writingcenter.tamu.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

writingcenter.tamu.edu best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

writingcenter.tamu.edu SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Writingcenter.tamu.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 Writingcenter.tamu.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

writingcenter.tamu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Writing Center Tamu. 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: