Access empac.rpi.edu. EMPAC — The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,770 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

empac.rpi.edu

80 ms

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16 ms

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33 ms

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32 ms

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38 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Empac.rpi.edu, 22% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (391 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.com.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

858.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Empac.rpi.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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 769.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

Original 37.2 kB
After minification 33.3 kB
After compression 7.5 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 4.0 kB, which is 11% 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 29.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

Original 769.8 kB
After minification 762.1 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. EMPAC Rpi images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 135.5 kB

Original 201.7 kB
After minification 180.0 kB
After compression 66.2 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 135.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 146.3 kB

Original 169.0 kB
After minification 167.2 kB
After compression 22.6 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. Empac.rpi.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 146.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EMPAC Rpi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.