Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

blackpoetry.ku.edu

Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement | The History of Black Writing

Page Load Speed

832 ms in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

568 ms

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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A two-week, NEH-funded institute for twenty-five college and university faculty on African-American poetry and poetics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackpoetry.ku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 726 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackpoetry.ku.edu performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackpoetry.ku.edu

106 ms

style.css

32 ms

adipoli.css

113 ms

jquery-1.7.1.js

164 ms

jquery.adipoli.min.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Blackpoetry.ku.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (247 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackpoetry.ku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.8 kB (32%)

Content Size

792.4 kB

After Optimization

542.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Blackpoetry.ku.edu main page is 792.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 607.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 17.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 607.2 kB
  • After minification 481.2 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. Obviously, Black Poetry Ku needs image optimization as it can save up to 125.9 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 98.6 kB

  • Original 154.8 kB
  • After minification 154.7 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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 98.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Blackpoetry.ku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Poetry Ku. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

blackpoetry.ku.edu accessibility score

63

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

blackpoetry.ku.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blackpoetry.ku.edu SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blackpoetry.ku.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blackpoetry.ku.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 Black Poetry Ku. 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: