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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

greatuniversities.org

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatuniversities.org page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 2.3 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

greatuniversities.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatuniversities.org

200 ms

www.greatuniversities.org

342 ms

style.css

73 ms

responsive.css

147 ms

fonts.css

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Greatuniversities.org, 11% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (731 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatuniversities.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 426.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

939.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatuniversities.org main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 740.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 27.5 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 21.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 740.5 kB
  • After minification 718.6 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. Greatuniversities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 199.6 kB
  • After compression 140.9 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 61.5 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 320.8 kB

  • Original 394.4 kB
  • After minification 394.2 kB
  • After compression 73.6 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. Greatuniversities.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (23%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Greatuniversities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greatuniversities.org

greatuniversities.org

200 ms

www.greatuniversities.org

www.greatuniversities.org

342 ms

style.css

style.css

73 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

147 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

214 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.js

modernizr-2.6.2.js

324 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

375 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

429 ms

Custom.js

Custom.js

275 ms

css

css

49 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

160 ms

great-university-logo.png

great-university-logo.png

160 ms

video-bg.jpg

video-bg.jpg

190 ms

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190 ms

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189 ms

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159 ms

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157 ms

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190 ms

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189 ms

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224 ms

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226 ms

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226 ms

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227 ms

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221 ms

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535 ms

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561 ms

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563 ms

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561 ms

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562 ms

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610 ms

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604 ms

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606 ms

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605 ms

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shrm-logonew.png

603 ms

ads.jpg

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605 ms

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606 ms

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602 ms

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603 ms

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603 ms

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603 ms

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185 ms

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554 ms

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560 ms

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563 ms

physics-astronomy.png

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564 ms

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560 ms

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462 ms

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accounts.jpg

462 ms

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462 ms

collect

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37 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

731 ms

stats.jpg

stats.jpg

594 ms

social.jpg

social.jpg

593 ms

bg-us2.png

bg-us2.png

591 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

21 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

51 ms

base.js

base.js

95 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

11 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

373 ms

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x4GzJJo9RC4OgwAGE2lcFcVE8cXbmVMYbnXayKeOrEM.js

248 ms

embed.js

embed.js

144 ms

initplayback

initplayback

209 ms

id

id

86 ms

Accessibility Review

greatuniversities.org accessibility score

75

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

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>).

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

greatuniversities.org best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

greatuniversities.org SEO score

77

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Greatuniversities.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 Greatuniversities.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

greatuniversities.org

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