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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

rc.rit.edu

Research Computing | RIT

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

465 ms

Page Rendered

640 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rc.rit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rc.rit.edu performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rc.rit.edu

100 ms

foundation

28 ms

normalize

46 ms

rs

39 ms

font-awesome.min.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Rc.rit.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (107 ms) belongs to the original domain Rc.rit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

228.5 kB

After Optimization

206.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Rc.rit.edu main page is 228.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 216.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 3.5 kB, which is 28% 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 10.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 216.1 kB
  • After minification 204.2 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. Rc RIT images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (41%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rc RIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rc.rit.edu

rc.rit.edu

100 ms

foundation

foundation

28 ms

normalize

normalize

46 ms

rs

rs

39 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

46 ms

rs-font.css

rs-font.css

45 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

41 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

87 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

107 ms

return-to-top.js

return-to-top.js

83 ms

rit_logo_white.png

rit_logo_white.png

88 ms

ANSYS.ico

ANSYS.ico

85 ms

cadence.png

cadence.png

84 ms

comsol.jpg

comsol.jpg

85 ms

matlab.png

matlab.png

105 ms

synopsys.gif

synopsys.gif

21 ms

torch7.png

torch7.png

85 ms

xilinx.png

xilinx.png

87 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

42 ms

rs.ttf

rs.ttf

23 ms

Accessibility Review

rc.rit.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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.

Best Practices

rc.rit.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rc.rit.edu SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Rc.rit.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 Rc.rit.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

rc.rit.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rc RIT. 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: