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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

journalism.usu.edu

Journalism and Communication | Utah State University | USU

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

4.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

213 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Journalism.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 4.1 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

journalism.usu.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value31,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

journalism.usu.edu

4103 ms

style.css

157 ms

shadowbox.css

108 ms

jcom.css

107 ms

jquery.min.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Journalism.usu.edu, 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Journalism.usu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Journalism.usu.edu main page is 1.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 22.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Journalism USU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 207.7 kB

  • Original 347.1 kB
  • After minification 346.1 kB
  • After compression 139.4 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 207.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 221.2 kB

  • Original 267.9 kB
  • After minification 264.1 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. Journalism.usu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (37%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Journalism USU. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

journalism.usu.edu

journalism.usu.edu

4103 ms

style.css

style.css

157 ms

shadowbox.css

shadowbox.css

108 ms

jcom.css

jcom.css

107 ms

jquery.min.js

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76 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

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99 ms

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153 ms

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155 ms

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104 ms

fixLinks.js

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108 ms

breadcrumbFix.js

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109 ms

shadowbox.js

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255 ms

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53 ms

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59 ms

analytics.js

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59 ms

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104 ms

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63 ms

usuLogo.png

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65 ms

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120 ms

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64 ms

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63 ms

BroadcastStudentsBanner.jpg

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350 ms

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475 ms

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480 ms

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224 ms

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278 ms

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277 ms

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330 ms

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330 ms

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392 ms

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391 ms

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411 ms

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41 ms

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35 ms

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62 ms

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73 ms

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95 ms

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32 ms

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78 ms

Accessibility Review

journalism.usu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

journalism.usu.edu 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

journalism.usu.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Journalism.usu.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 Journalism.usu.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

journalism.usu.edu

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