Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

news.mst.edu

Missouri S&T – News and Events

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

941 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

558 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.mst.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 941 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.mst.edu performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.mst.edu

941 ms

layout.css

122 ms

style.css

204 ms

flexslider.css

122 ms

style.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original News.mst.edu, 11% (13 requests) were made to Graph.facebook.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (941 ms) belongs to the original domain News.mst.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 530.2 kB (63%)

Content Size

847.1 kB

After Optimization

316.8 kB

In fact, the total size of News.mst.edu main page is 847.1 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. Javascripts take 334.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 160.3 kB

  • Original 184.3 kB
  • After minification 183.5 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 160.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 137.9 kB
  • After minification 121.8 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. Obviously, News Mst needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

  • Original 334.0 kB
  • After minification 328.9 kB
  • After compression 129.5 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 204.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 149.4 kB

  • Original 190.9 kB
  • After minification 160.5 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. News.mst.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (56%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Mst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.mst.edu accessibility score

74

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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 IDs are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

news.mst.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

news.mst.edu SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 News.mst.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 News.mst.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 News Mst. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: