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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

digipen.edu

DigiPen | A College for Interactive Media and Video Game Development

Page Load Speed

13.2 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

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About Website

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DigiPen Institute of Technology offers bachelor's and master's degrees in topics including game design, computer science, sound, and digital art.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digipen.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 12.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digipen.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digipen.edu

1018 ms

www.digipen.edu

3902 ms

stylesheet_970cdd2551.css

313 ms

index.php

574 ms

ohh2cqo.js

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Digipen.edu, 15% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.5 sec) relates to the external source News.digipen.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Digipen.edu 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.4 kB, which is 17% 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 24.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 174.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Digi Pen needs image optimization as it can save up to 174.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 79.2 kB

  • Original 127.9 kB
  • After minification 110.8 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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 79.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 87.9 kB

  • Original 103.3 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. Digipen.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (41%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digi Pen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

digipen.edu

digipen.edu

1018 ms

www.digipen.edu

www.digipen.edu

3902 ms

stylesheet_970cdd2551.css

stylesheet_970cdd2551.css

313 ms

index.php

index.php

574 ms

ohh2cqo.js

ohh2cqo.js

133 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

74 ms

royalslider.css

royalslider.css

385 ms

default.css

default.css

385 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.min.js

jquery.easing.1.3.min.js

352 ms

royal-slider-8.1.min.js

royal-slider-8.1.min.js

461 ms

pplib_css_4f6157de61.css

pplib_css_4f6157de61.css

510 ms

pplib_css_3a287a703f.css

pplib_css_3a287a703f.css

554 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

695 ms

jquery.fancybox.mod.css

jquery.fancybox.mod.css

582 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

49 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

www.digipen.edu

www.digipen.edu

31 ms

new_bg2.jpg

new_bg2.jpg

314 ms

logo_white.png

logo_white.png

286 ms

DigiPen_web_logo.gif

DigiPen_web_logo.gif

272 ms

search_glyph.png

search_glyph.png

208 ms

Part-Time_MSCS.jpg

Part-Time_MSCS.jpg

881 ms

Slider4.jpg

Slider4.jpg

1009 ms

MFA_Grad_Admissions.jpg

MFA_Grad_Admissions.jpg

1166 ms

Slider5.jpg

Slider5.jpg

1397 ms

games_banner.jpg

games_banner.jpg

1201 ms

expCollapse.gif

expCollapse.gif

515 ms

request_info_new.png

request_info_new.png

866 ms

gplus.png

gplus.png

1070 ms

fb.png

fb.png

1084 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

1211 ms

yt.png

yt.png

1269 ms

6533 ms

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113 ms

ts.js

ts.js

171 ms

tsr.js

tsr.js

49 ms

Accessibility Review

digipen.edu accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

digipen.edu 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

digipen.edu SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Digipen.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 Digipen.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

digipen.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Digi Pen. 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: