Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ritathletics.com

Rochester Institute of Technology Athletics - Official Athletics Website

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

963 ms

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About Website

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The official athletics website for the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ritathletics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ritathletics.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.099

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ritathletics.com

212 ms

core_compressed.css

34 ms

site.less

296 ms

slick.min.css

37 ms

modernizr.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Ritathletics.com, 17% (27 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 14% (21 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ritathletics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (14%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ritathletics.com main page is 7.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 109.9 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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 109.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 151.2 kB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 6.0 MB

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. Rit Athletics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 524.3 kB

  • Original 786.4 kB
  • After minification 733.0 kB
  • After compression 262.1 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 524.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 217.2 kB

  • Original 263.3 kB
  • After minification 260.0 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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. Ritathletics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 217.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (42%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rit Athletics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ritathletics.com accessibility score

65

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ritathletics.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ritathletics.com SEO score

93

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 Ritathletics.com 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 Ritathletics.com 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 Rit Athletics. 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: