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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gradapp.wpi.edu

Graduate Admissions | Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Page Load Speed

344 ms in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

323 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradapp.wpi.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 323 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradapp.wpi.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,500 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

graduate.html

21 ms

graduate.html

138 ms

graduate

9 ms

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3 ms

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7 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gradapp.wpi.edu, 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (138 ms) relates to the external source Wpi.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

375.3 kB

After Optimization

294.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gradapp.wpi.edu main page is 375.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 106.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 79.8 kB

  • Original 100.8 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 12.4 kB, which is 12% 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 79.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 437 B

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 106.0 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. Gradapp Wpi images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 353 B

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 90.6 kB
  • After compression 90.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 799 B

  • Original 77.5 kB
  • After minification 77.5 kB
  • After compression 76.7 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. Gradapp.wpi.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (71%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gradapp Wpi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

graduate.html

graduate.html

21 ms

graduate.html

graduate.html

138 ms

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9 ms

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3 ms

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css_IF70N5TDTikwAKQKzTw0TVmIGD24eqAIdlY4V5vPd5E.css

7 ms

wpi.css

wpi.css

16 ms

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12 ms

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42 ms

wpi.js

wpi.js

10 ms

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47 ms

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wpi_group.checkboxes.js

14 ms

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14 ms

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51 ms

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gtm.js

86 ms

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15 ms

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16 ms

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

gradapp.wpi.edu accessibility score

88

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gradapp.wpi.edu best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gradapp.wpi.edu SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Gradapp.wpi.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 Gradapp.wpi.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

gradapp.wpi.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gradapp Wpi. 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: