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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

college.usc.edu

USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

3.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing College USC content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about college.usc.edu

The largest and oldest of the USC schools, USC Dornsife functions as the academic core of the university, offering courses and advancing knowledge across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

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Key Findings

We analyzed College.usc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

college.usc.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,800 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

college.usc.edu

259 ms

dornsife.usc.edu

394 ms

gdpr_cookie.css

270 ms

gdpr_cookie.js

269 ms

js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original College.usc.edu, 63% (25 requests) were made to Dornsife.usc.edu and 8% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Dornsife.usc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

694.9 kB

After Optimization

669.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of College.usc.edu main page is 694.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 606.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. 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 25.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 606.7 kB
  • After minification 606.7 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. College USC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 54.6 kB
  • After minification 54.6 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (36%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College USC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

college.usc.edu

college.usc.edu

259 ms

dornsife.usc.edu

dornsife.usc.edu

394 ms

gdpr_cookie.css

gdpr_cookie.css

270 ms

gdpr_cookie.js

gdpr_cookie.js

269 ms

js

js

136 ms

modernizr-latest.js

modernizr-latest.js

434 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

179 ms

submenus.js

submenus.js

321 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

177 ms

styles.css

styles.css

323 ms

mlpushmenu.min.js

mlpushmenu.min.js

321 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

1605 ms

cssua.min.js

cssua.min.js

1605 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1844 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

526 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1666 ms

10.jpg

10.jpg

1057 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

1468 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

1468 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

1884 ms

8.jpg

8.jpg

1867 ms

7.jpg

7.jpg

2223 ms

1442.jpg

1442.jpg

2224 ms

1443.jpg

1443.jpg

2484 ms

1415.jpg

1415.jpg

2367 ms

979.jpg

979.jpg

2607 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

928 ms

usc-white.svg

usc-white.svg

2148 ms

dornsife-white.svg

dornsife-white.svg

2141 ms

977.jpg

977.jpg

2534 ms

978.jpg

978.jpg

2285 ms

icons.woff

icons.woff

1869 ms

NationalWeb-Semibold.woff

NationalWeb-Semibold.woff

1142 ms

NationalWeb-Bold.woff

NationalWeb-Bold.woff

1140 ms

NationalWeb-Regular.woff

NationalWeb-Regular.woff

1257 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

466 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

490 ms

collect

collect

348 ms

535 ms

collect

collect

489 ms

Accessibility Review

college.usc.edu accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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.

Best Practices

college.usc.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

college.usc.edu SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 College.usc.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 College.usc.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

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