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frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu

Department of French and Italian - Northwestern University

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 2.1 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

frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu

103 ms

www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu

228 ms

weinberg-dept-2015.css

201 ms

department.css

82 ms

responsiveslides.css

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu, 38% (13 requests) were made to Weinberg.northwestern.edu and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Common.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.0 kB (68%)

Content Size

166.9 kB

After Optimization

52.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu main page is 166.9 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. Javascripts take 66.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 13.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 21.8 kB
  • After minification 16.8 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, French And Italian Northwestern needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 43.4 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 59.6 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 43.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (26%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of French And Italian Northwestern. 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 JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu SEO score

0

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 Frenchanditalian.northwestern.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 Frenchanditalian.northwestern.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 French And Italian Northwestern. 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: