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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

african.wisc.edu

African Cultural Studies – Researching and teaching the languages and expressive cultures of Africa and Africans around the world since 1964 – UW–Madi...

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

375 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed African.wisc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

african.wisc.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.146

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

african.wisc.edu

96 ms

african.wisc.edu

1089 ms

js

168 ms

main.min.css

23 ms

GeH3rVFRlrI

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original African.wisc.edu, 23% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain African.wisc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 263.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of African.wisc.edu main page is 3.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 65.1 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 52.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 207.5 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. African Wisc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 229.3 kB
  • After minification 229.3 kB
  • After compression 226.5 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 153 B

  • Original 93.5 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 93.3 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. African.wisc.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (50%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Wisc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

african.wisc.edu

african.wisc.edu

96 ms

african.wisc.edu

african.wisc.edu

1089 ms

js

js

168 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

23 ms

GeH3rVFRlrI

GeH3rVFRlrI

160 ms

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177 ms

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75 ms

uw-events.css

uw-events.css

36 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

77 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

89 ms

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74 ms

uwcookieconsent.min.js

uwcookieconsent.min.js

157 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

40 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

57 ms

base.js

base.js

83 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

130 ms

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100 ms

embed.js

embed.js

36 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

38 ms

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117 ms

id

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28 ms

Create

Create

82 ms

Accessibility Review

african.wisc.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

african.wisc.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

african.wisc.edu SEO score

98

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 African.wisc.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 African.wisc.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 African Wisc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: