Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

civic.duke.edu

Civic Engagement - Duke Office of Durham and Community Affairs

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

351 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Civic.duke.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

civic.duke.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

civic.duke.edu

1404 ms

css

83 ms

css

95 ms

footer.css

141 ms

alert.css

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Civic.duke.edu, 9% (8 requests) were made to Img.youtube.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Powr.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Civic.duke.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

993.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Civic.duke.edu main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 916.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. 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 20.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 474.6 kB
  • After minification 463.6 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. Civic Duke images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 571.3 kB

  • Original 916.1 kB
  • After minification 908.8 kB
  • After compression 344.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 571.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 595.0 kB

  • Original 773.8 kB
  • After minification 758.4 kB
  • After compression 178.7 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. Civic.duke.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 595.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (67%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Civic Duke. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

civic.duke.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

civic.duke.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

civic.duke.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Civic.duke.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 Civic.duke.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 description is not detected on the main page of Civic Duke. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: