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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

wuscalumni.org

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Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

379 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

621 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wuscalumni.org page load time and found that the first response time was 379 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wuscalumni.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wuscalumni.org

379 ms

wusc.css

345 ms

wusc.js

289 ms

show_ads.js

6 ms

b

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Wuscalumni.org, 11% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) relates to the external source Mypagerank.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.4 kB (16%)

Content Size

215.6 kB

After Optimization

182.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wuscalumni.org main page is 215.6 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 155.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. 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 20.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 886 B

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 154.1 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. WUSC Alumni images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 133 B
  • After minification 106 B
  • After compression 80 B

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. Wuscalumni.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53 B or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (44%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WUSC Alumni. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wuscalumni.org

wuscalumni.org

379 ms

wusc.css

wusc.css

345 ms

wusc.js

wusc.js

289 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

6 ms

b

b

19 ms

index.php

index.php

97 ms

carolina.gif

carolina.gif

474 ms

usa-backlinks-90.gif

usa-backlinks-90.gif

319 ms

backlinks-usa-90.gif

backlinks-usa-90.gif

389 ms

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peck-tiger.gif

472 ms

dyblv.php

dyblv.php

70 ms

gbla.php

gbla.php

622 ms

mblv.php

mblv.php

55 ms

top-usa-sites.gif

top-usa-sites.gif

362 ms

site-map.gif

site-map.gif

65 ms

w3c-mwi-88.gif

w3c-mwi-88.gif

353 ms

i.gif

i.gif

34 ms

backlinks-usa-80.gif

backlinks-usa-80.gif

312 ms

silverbg.jpg

silverbg.jpg

64 ms

wusclogo.jpg

wusclogo.jpg

312 ms

wuscalum.gif

wuscalum.gif

249 ms

wusc1947bw.jpg

wusc1947bw.jpg

381 ms

wusc-today.jpg

wusc-today.jpg

380 ms

silverblockc.jpg

silverblockc.jpg

250 ms

bookmark.gif

bookmark.gif

153 ms

wusc-fb.gif

wusc-fb.gif

312 ms

qrcode-100.png

qrcode-100.png

310 ms

tune-in-now.gif

tune-in-now.gif

311 ms

icralogo.gif

icralogo.gif

377 ms

safesurf.gif

safesurf.gif

376 ms

iwatchdog.gif

iwatchdog.gif

377 ms

chromeb1.gif

chromeb1.gif

376 ms

top.gif

top.gif

463 ms

vxhtml10.gif

vxhtml10.gif

462 ms

w3c-css.gif

w3c-css.gif

461 ms

htmltidy.gif

htmltidy.gif

462 ms

wdg-valid.gif

wdg-valid.gif

461 ms

top-carolina-80.gif

top-carolina-80.gif

341 ms

usa-backlinks-80.gif

usa-backlinks-80.gif

240 ms

ca-pub-9386641920396601.js

ca-pub-9386641920396601.js

44 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

40 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

70 ms

s.gif

s.gif

20 ms

0.gif

0.gif

11 ms

button_3.gif

button_3.gif

69 ms

ads

ads

251 ms

osd.js

osd.js

7 ms

ads

ads

436 ms

ads

ads

198 ms

ads

ads

136 ms

ads

ads

184 ms

abg.js

abg.js

28 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

13 ms

favicon

favicon

82 ms

s

s

43 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

76 ms

favicon

favicon

108 ms

favicon

favicon

89 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

33 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

36 ms

top50.gif

top50.gif

90 ms

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

3 ms

button.gif

button.gif

77 ms

activeview

activeview

14 ms

activeview

activeview

16 ms

button.gif

button.gif

64 ms

Accessibility Review

wuscalumni.org accessibility score

95

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.

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

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

Best Practices

wuscalumni.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

wuscalumni.org 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wuscalumni.org 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 Wuscalumni.org 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

wuscalumni.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of WUSC Alumni. 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: