Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

inside.usc.edu

USC Employee Gateway | USC

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

431 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

217 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Inside.usc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 431 ms and then it took 2 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

inside.usc.edu performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

employees.usc.edu

431 ms

responsive_960grid.css

153 ms

wp-ulike.min.css

222 ms

employees-v1.4.2.css

151 ms

rflickrshow.v1.2.css

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Inside.usc.edu, 11% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (431 ms) relates to the external source Employees.usc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.7 kB (59%)

Content Size

687.3 kB

After Optimization

284.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Inside.usc.edu main page is 687.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 343.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 28.4 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 24.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 179.8 kB
  • After minification 165.0 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. Inside USC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 133.0 kB
  • After minification 127.5 kB
  • After compression 56.6 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 76.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 286.7 kB

  • Original 343.0 kB
  • After minification 339.3 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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. Inside.usc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 286.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (46%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Inside 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

inside.usc.edu accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

inside.usc.edu best practices score

69

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

inside.usc.edu SEO score

90

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 Inside.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 Inside.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

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