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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

map.usc.edu

USC Media Arts + Practice – School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), University of Southern California

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Visit map.usc.edu now to see the best up-to-date Map USC content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about map.usc.edu

Media Arts and Practice (MA+P) empowers students in the interpretation and design of media to be more engaged, active, and critical citizens for the 21st century.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Map.usc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

map.usc.edu performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

map.usc.edu

151 ms

map.usc.edu

758 ms

bootstrap.min.css

22 ms

css2

50 ms

style-blocks.build.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Map.usc.edu, 13% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (758 ms) belongs to the original domain Map.usc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 572.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Map.usc.edu main page is 9.0 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 8.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 41.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 346.0 kB

  • Original 8.7 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Map USC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 6.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 178.4 kB

  • Original 207.9 kB
  • After minification 190.5 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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. Map.usc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (30%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Map 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

map.usc.edu

map.usc.edu

151 ms

map.usc.edu

map.usc.edu

758 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

22 ms

css2

css2

50 ms

style-blocks.build.css

style-blocks.build.css

164 ms

style.css

style.css

252 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

363 ms

style.css

style.css

202 ms

front-end.css

front-end.css

171 ms

js

js

65 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

5 ms

main.js

main.js

117 ms

patch.css

patch.css

117 ms

interface.css

interface.css

172 ms

accessibility.js

accessibility.js

173 ms

SCA_logo.png

SCA_logo.png

135 ms

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MAP-Website-Hero-Image_1600x900_Bodie_LessPadding.png

346 ms

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kristin_wong_avatar.jpg

234 ms

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235 ms

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136 ms

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135 ms

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533 ms

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255 ms

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292 ms

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296 ms

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592 ms

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433 ms

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407 ms

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364 ms

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408 ms

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434 ms

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469 ms

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492 ms

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494 ms

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391 ms

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Accessibility Review

map.usc.edu accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

map.usc.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

map.usc.edu SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Map.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 Map.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

map.usc.edu

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