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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

ardent.mit.edu

Richard de Neufville - Professor of Engineering Systems & Faculty - MIT

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ardent.mit.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 2 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

ardent.mit.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,770 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ardent.mit.edu

94 ms

ardent.mit.edu

1008 ms

js

49 ms

style.min.css

163 ms

css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Ardent.mit.edu, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ardent.mit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

450.4 kB

After Optimization

401.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ardent.mit.edu main page is 450.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 247.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 37.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 247.4 kB
  • After minification 237.5 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. Ar De Nt MIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 159 B

  • Original 96.0 kB
  • After minification 96.0 kB
  • After compression 95.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 55.9 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 53.7 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. Ardent.mit.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (78%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ar De Nt MIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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94 ms

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1008 ms

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49 ms

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94 ms

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412 ms

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60 ms

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18 ms

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277 ms

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204 ms

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Accessibility Review

ardent.mit.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

ardent.mit.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ardent.mit.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Ardent.mit.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 Ardent.mit.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

ardent.mit.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ar De Nt MIT. 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: