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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% 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

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

UW-LACIS Blog – Official Blog of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – UW–Madison

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

409 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

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Written by Gillian Quinn. Mary Morales, a master student in the LACIS program, has received a scholarship to get her PhD at UT-Austin. Mary got involved with LACIS in fall of 2016 because she was …

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.lacis.wisc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 409 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.lacis.wisc.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,740 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

409 ms

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

643 ms

gtm.js

339 ms

fonts.css

117 ms

main.min.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.lacis.wisc.edu, 21% (3 requests) were made to and 14% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (946 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.wisc.cloud.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

261.7 kB

After Optimization

217.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.lacis.wisc.edu main page is 261.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 144.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 55.0 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 42.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 353 B

  • Original 59.7 kB
  • After minification 59.7 kB
  • After compression 59.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 604 B

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 144.5 kB
  • After compression 143.9 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. Blog.lacis.wisc.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (67%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

3

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog LACIS 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

409 ms

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

blog.lacis.wisc.edu

643 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

339 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

117 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

251 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

337 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

685 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

926 ms

uwcookieconsent.min.js

uwcookieconsent.min.js

946 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

197 ms

js

js

193 ms

KOBQj

KOBQj

101 ms

KOBQj

KOBQj

101 ms

KOBQj

KOBQj

100 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.lacis.wisc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blog.lacis.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

blog.lacis.wisc.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

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