Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu

Study Abroad Student Stories – International Academic Programs, University of Wisconsin Madison – UW–Madison

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 2.6 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.studyabroad.wisc.edu performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.798

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu

221 ms

blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu

1910 ms

js

126 ms

main.min.css

19 ms

jquery.min.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu, 11% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Cdn.wisc.cloud. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.9 kB (24%)

Content Size

242.5 kB

After Optimization

184.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu main page is 242.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 75.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 66.6 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 56.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 73.9 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. Blog Study Abroad Wisc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 334 B

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 62.4 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 25 B

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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. Blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (57%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Study Abroad 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.studyabroad.wisc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blog.studyabroad.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.studyabroad.wisc.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Blog.studyabroad.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.studyabroad.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blog Study Abroad Wisc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: