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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

spire.umass.edu

SPIRE login | UMass Amherst

Page Load Speed

698 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

391 ms

Page Rendered

234 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spire.umass.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 625 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spire.umass.edu performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

73 ms

css2

40 ms

headerfooter.css

44 ms

main.css

40 ms

headerfooter.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Spire.umass.edu, 40% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (73 ms) relates to the external source Umass.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

549.4 kB

After Optimization

525.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spire.umass.edu main page is 549.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 520.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.7 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 520.6 kB
  • After minification 517.7 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. SPIRE UMass images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 892 B
  • After compression 311 B

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 1.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 9.1 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Spire.umass.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SPIRE UMass. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

73 ms

css2

css2

40 ms

headerfooter.css

headerfooter.css

44 ms

main.css

main.css

40 ms

headerfooter.js

headerfooter.js

47 ms

UMassAmherst_longform-WHITE.svg

UMassAmherst_longform-WHITE.svg

34 ms

UMassAmherst_longform-reversed.svg

UMassAmherst_longform-reversed.svg

34 ms

search-reversed.svg

search-reversed.svg

38 ms

fall.jpg

fall.jpg

36 ms

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43 ms

Accessibility Review

spire.umass.edu accessibility score

81

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

spire.umass.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

SEO Factors

spire.umass.edu SEO score

92

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 Spire.umass.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 Spire.umass.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

spire.umass.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SPIRE UMass. 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: