Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

coastalstudiesinstitute.org

Coastal Studies Institute Home | ECU Outer Banks Campus

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

662 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Coastal Studies Institute content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about coastalstudiesinstitute.org

The Coastal Studies Institute is one facet of ECU’s Integrated Coastal Programs (ICP). This college-level academic unit is the umbrella organization for coastal and marine sciences at ECU.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Coastalstudiesinstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coastalstudiesinstitute.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

coastalstudiesinstitute.org

109 ms

www.coastalstudiesinstitute.org

86 ms

styles.css

18 ms

all.css

161 ms

style.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Coastalstudiesinstitute.org, 27% (26 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (443 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Coastalstudiesinstitute.org main page is 3.2 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. 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 292.2 kB

  • Original 338.3 kB
  • After minification 334.9 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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 292.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Coastal Studies Institute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 634.1 kB
  • After minification 631.0 kB
  • After compression 584.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 118.4 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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. Coastalstudiesinstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (68%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Coastal Studies Institute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

coastalstudiesinstitute.org accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

coastalstudiesinstitute.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

coastalstudiesinstitute.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Coastalstudiesinstitute.org 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 Coastalstudiesinstitute.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

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