Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

econ.msu.edu

Economics | MSU | Michigan State University

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

124 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Econ.msu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

econ.msu.edu performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

econ.msu.edu

112 ms

styles.css

58 ms

chrome.js

54 ms

brand

15 ms

brand

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Econ.msu.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Econ.msu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

299.5 kB

After Optimization

229.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Econ.msu.edu main page is 299.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 250.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 6.5 kB, which is 20% 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 26.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 250.2 kB
  • After minification 220.5 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. Obviously, Econ MSU needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 7.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Econ.msu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (30%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Econ MSU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

econ.msu.edu accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

econ.msu.edu best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

econ.msu.edu SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Econ.msu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Econ.msu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Econ MSU. 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: