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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

mtu.edu

Michigan Technological University

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

784 ms

Page Rendered

203 ms

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About Website

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Michigan Technological University is a flagship public research university founded in 1885. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake S...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mtu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 987 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mtu.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,800 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mtu.edu

125 ms

home.css

44 ms

mootools.js

179 ms

home.js

96 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Mtu.edu, 27% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) belongs to the original domain Mtu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

606.7 kB

After Optimization

480.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mtu.edu main page is 606.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 424.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 14.8 kB
  • After minification 13.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 10.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 424.6 kB
  • After minification 414.8 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. Mtu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 142.5 kB
  • After minification 141.5 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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 86.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Mtu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mtu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.mtu.edu

www.mtu.edu

125 ms

home.css

home.css

44 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

179 ms

home.js

home.js

96 ms

css

css

25 ms

ga.js

ga.js

38 ms

1456512955.jpg

1456512955.jpg

234 ms

home-sprite.png

home-sprite.png

58 ms

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15 ms

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16 ms

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16 ms

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PRmiXeptR36kaC0GEAetxp_TkvowlIOtbR7ePgFOpF4.ttf

17 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

collect

collect

68 ms

1456512955.jpg

1456512955.jpg

73 ms

Accessibility Review

mtu.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Best Practices

mtu.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

mtu.edu SEO score

93

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 doesn't use 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 Mtu.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 Mtu.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

mtu.edu

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