Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

classics.colorado.edu

Department of Classics | University of Colorado Boulder

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

About Website

Welcome to classics.colorado.edu homepage info - get ready to check Classics Colorado best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about classics.colorado.edu

CU Classics students are challenged to acquire skills in the analysis & presentation of diverse forms of evidence that stand to serve them in their daily, civic & professional lives.

Visit classics.colorado.edu

Key Findings

We analyzed Classics.colorado.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

classics.colorado.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

classics.colorado.edu

196 ms

classics.colorado.edu

199 ms

454 ms

css2

39 ms

system.base.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Classics.colorado.edu, 84% (124 requests) were made to Colorado.edu and 4% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (454 ms) relates to the external source Colorado.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Classics.colorado.edu main page is 1.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 47.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 345 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Classics Colorado images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 333.7 kB
  • After minification 330.3 kB
  • After compression 270.7 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 63.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 168.4 kB
  • After minification 167.8 kB
  • After compression 137.3 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. Classics.colorado.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 122 (88%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classics Colorado. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 74 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

classics.colorado.edu accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

classics.colorado.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

classics.colorado.edu SEO score

92

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

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