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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

cwel.usu.edu

Center for Water-Efficient Landscaping at Utah State University | USU

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

21 sec

Page Rendered

643 ms

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USU's Center for Water-Efficient Landscaping is a research and outreach center designed to improve efficient use of water for landscape irrigation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cwel.usu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 21.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

cwel.usu.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,190 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cwel.usu.edu

173 ms

cwel.usu.edu

230 ms

cwel

290 ms

74 ms

bootstrap.min.css

355 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cwel.usu.edu, 39% (15 requests) were made to Extension.usu.edu and 16% (6 requests) were made to Usu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Ouresources.usu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cwel.usu.edu 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 8.9 kB, which is 19% 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 36.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 216.6 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Cwel USU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.7 MB
  • After compression 4.6 MB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 45.5 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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. Cwel.usu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cwel USU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cwel.usu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cwel.usu.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cwel.usu.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

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cwel.usu.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 Cwel.usu.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 Cwel USU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: