Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

waterquality.montana.edu

MSU Extension Water Quality - MSU Extension Water Quality | Montana State University

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

162 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterquality.montana.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterquality.montana.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.569

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterquality.montana.edu

220 ms

slick-theme.css

89 ms

slick.css

98 ms

bootstrap.min.css

11 ms

font-awesome.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Waterquality.montana.edu, 13% (5 requests) were made to Ou.montana.edu and 8% (3 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (448 ms) belongs to the original domain Waterquality.montana.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 308.6 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

876.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Waterquality.montana.edu main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 849.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 12.5 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 10.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 849.0 kB
  • After minification 801.8 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. Water Quality Montana images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 70.9 kB

  • Original 103.5 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 70.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 180.5 kB

  • Original 218.7 kB
  • After minification 201.2 kB
  • After compression 38.2 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. Waterquality.montana.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 180.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (41%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Quality Montana. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waterquality.montana.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

waterquality.montana.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

waterquality.montana.edu SEO score

87

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Waterquality.montana.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 Waterquality.montana.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 description is not detected on the main page of Water Quality Montana. 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: