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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mits.org

Home - Wade Institute for Science Education | Inquiry-based, hands-on, minds-on, science, technology and engineering professional development for K-12...

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

564 ms

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About Website

Welcome to mits.org homepage info - get ready to check Mits best content right away, or after learning these important things about mits.org

The Wade Institute for Science Education is a 501 (c)(3) Massachusetts-based nonprofit dedicated to hands-on, minds-on, inquiry-based STEM education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mits.org page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mits.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.298

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mits.org

102 ms

wadeinstitutema.org

117 ms

www.wadeinstitutema.org

265 ms

js

220 ms

8b99578d79342fe4ffa1fc628f5acfc5.min.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mits.org, 77% (20 requests) were made to Wadeinstitutema.org and 15% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (411 ms) relates to the external source Wadeinstitutema.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

943.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mits.org main page is 1.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 734.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 104.0 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 88.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 734.1 kB
  • After minification 710.6 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. Mits images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 129 B

  • Original 60.4 kB
  • After minification 60.4 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 163.0 kB
  • After minification 163.0 kB
  • After compression 157.2 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. Mits.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (47%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mits. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mits.org

mits.org

102 ms

wadeinstitutema.org

wadeinstitutema.org

117 ms

www.wadeinstitutema.org

www.wadeinstitutema.org

265 ms

js

js

220 ms

8b99578d79342fe4ffa1fc628f5acfc5.min.css

8b99578d79342fe4ffa1fc628f5acfc5.min.css

54 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

48 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

47 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

270 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

220 ms

index.js

index.js

201 ms

index.js

index.js

201 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

265 ms

0c8bfa72fa48078a170ce3fba85d3251.min.js

0c8bfa72fa48078a170ce3fba85d3251.min.js

403 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

171 ms

1.png

1.png

411 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

348 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

198 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

286 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

12 ms

collect

collect

44 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

Wade-Institute-for-Science-Education-Logo.png

Wade-Institute-for-Science-Education-Logo.png

39 ms

2022-Sensor-Workshop-Teaser-Image-9.22.22.png

2022-Sensor-Workshop-Teaser-Image-9.22.22.png

343 ms

Skinny-STEM-Challenge-Banner-for-Website-1000x150-7.27.22.png

Skinny-STEM-Challenge-Banner-for-Website-1000x150-7.27.22.png

350 ms

arrow-up.png

arrow-up.png

318 ms

awb-icons.woff

awb-icons.woff

259 ms

Accessibility Review

mits.org accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mits.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mits.org SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Mits.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 Mits.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

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