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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

cmusenate.org

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

659 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cmusenate.org page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cmusenate.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cmusenate.org

77 ms

212 ms

css

26 ms

main.6.7.min.css

118 ms

list.min.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cmusenate.org, 62% (13 requests) were made to Cmu.edu and 19% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Cmu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cmusenate.org main page is 1.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 46.6 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 31.6 kB, which is 60% 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 46.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Cmusenate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 114.1 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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 60.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 67.9 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. Cmusenate.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (26%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cmusenate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cmusenate.org

cmusenate.org

77 ms

212 ms

css

css

26 ms

main.6.7.min.css

main.6.7.min.css

118 ms

list.min.js

list.min.js

99 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

202 ms

main.6.7.min.js

main.6.7.min.js

133 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

69 ms

cmu-wordmark-white.png

cmu-wordmark-white.png

46 ms

icon-magnify.png

icon-magnify.png

46 ms

hero-small.png

hero-small.png

1180 ms

icon-leave-site.png

icon-leave-site.png

106 ms

js

js

84 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

475 ms

cmu-wordmark-white-small.png

cmu-wordmark-white-small.png

49 ms

hero-large.png

hero-large.png

1901 ms

cmu-wordmark.png

cmu-wordmark.png

48 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

print.min.css

print.min.css

34 ms

Accessibility Review

cmusenate.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

cmusenate.org 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

SEO Factors

cmusenate.org 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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cmusenate.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Cmusenate.org 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

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