Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

illinoisstate.edu

Illinois State University - Illinois’ first public university

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illinoisstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 2.6 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

illinoisstate.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

illinoisstate.edu

274 ms

nivo.css

107 ms

easy-responsive-tabs.css

208 ms

style.css

301 ms

jquery.min.js

379 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Illinoisstate.edu, 58% (26 requests) were made to Cdn.illinoisstate.edu and 13% (6 requests) were made to Iguides.illinoisstate.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.illinoisstate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Illinoisstate.edu main page is 1.9 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 71.3 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.3 kB, which is 13% 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 70.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Illinois State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 133.6 kB

  • Original 205.9 kB
  • After minification 202.9 kB
  • After compression 72.3 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 133.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 88.4 kB
  • After minification 86.7 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. Illinoisstate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (44%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illinois State. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

illinoisstate.edu accessibility score

94

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

illinoisstate.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

illinoisstate.edu SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Illinoisstate.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 Illinoisstate.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 data is detected on the main page of Illinois State. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: