Tools & Wizards About Us
cascade.msu.edu screenshot

Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

cascade.msu.edu

Home | Michigan State University

Page Load Speed

868 ms in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

432 ms

Page Rendered

346 ms

cascade.msu.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cascade.msu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Cascade Msu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about cascade.msu.edu

Visit cascade.msu.edu

Key Findings

We analyzed Cascade.msu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 778 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cascade.msu.edu performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cascade.msu.edu

90 ms

fonts.css

176 ms

reset.css

28 ms

default.css

105 ms

masthead-helmet-green-298x34.png

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Cascade.msu.edu, 6% (1 request) were made to Cloud.typography.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (176 ms) relates to the external source Cloud.typography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.0 kB (19%)

Content Size

169.4 kB

After Optimization

137.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cascade.msu.edu main page is 169.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 133.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 2.1 kB, which is 19% 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 8.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 133.8 kB
  • After minification 130.7 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. Cascade Msu images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Cascade.msu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (20%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cascade Msu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cascade.msu.edu

cascade.msu.edu

90 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

176 ms

reset.css

reset.css

28 ms

default.css

default.css

105 ms

masthead-helmet-green-298x34.png

masthead-helmet-green-298x34.png

81 ms

masthead-helmet-white-298x34.png

masthead-helmet-white-298x34.png

87 ms

masthead-helmet-black-298x34.png

masthead-helmet-black-298x34.png

74 ms

login-button.png

login-button.png

75 ms

msu-wordmark-green-221x47.png

msu-wordmark-green-221x47.png

77 ms

msu-wordmark-black-221x47.png

msu-wordmark-black-221x47.png

107 ms

print.css

print.css

28 ms

475D4D25E4A3A5B74.css

475D4D25E4A3A5B74.css

30 ms

banner-photo-1-1170x318.jpg

banner-photo-1-1170x318.jpg

132 ms

banner-top-shadow.png

banner-top-shadow.png

65 ms

banner-btm-shadow.png

banner-btm-shadow.png

65 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

63 ms

banner-text-bg.png

banner-text-bg.png

65 ms

Accessibility Review

cascade.msu.edu accessibility score

93

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

cascade.msu.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cascade.msu.edu SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cascade.msu.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 Cascade.msu.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

cascade.msu.edu

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