Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

housing.fiu.edu

Housing and Residential Experience | Florida International University

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

650 ms

housing.fiu.edu screenshot

About Website

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FIU Housing is the real college experience. Student housing community is vibrant and bustling with 3,200 students who live, work and play surrounded by FIU's lush, expansive campus. Not only is it the...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housing.fiu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housing.fiu.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housing.fiu.edu

210 ms

214 ms

foundation.min.css

88 ms

font-awesome.min.css

83 ms

slick.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Housing.fiu.edu, 38% (21 requests) were made to Studentaffairs.fiu.edu and 16% (9 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source News.fiu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 829.5 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Housing.fiu.edu main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 42.3 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 33.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Housing Fiu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 344.9 kB

  • Original 559.2 kB
  • After minification 556.6 kB
  • After compression 214.3 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 344.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 407.8 kB

  • Original 484.0 kB
  • After minification 480.3 kB
  • After compression 76.2 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. Housing.fiu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 407.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (51%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housing Fiu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

housing.fiu.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

housing.fiu.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

SEO Factors

housing.fiu.edu SEO score

88

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Housing.fiu.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 Housing.fiu.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 Housing Fiu. 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: