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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

internships.northwestern.edu

Chicago Field Studies - Northwestern University

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Internships.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 166 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

internships.northwestern.edu performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

internships.northwestern.edu

166 ms

www.internships.northwestern.edu

204 ms

weinberg-dept-2016.css

266 ms

department.css

111 ms

responsiveslides.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Internships.northwestern.edu, 35% (13 requests) were made to Weinberg.northwestern.edu and 19% (7 requests) were made to Common.northwestern.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Common.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

643.9 kB

After Optimization

529.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Internships.northwestern.edu main page is 643.9 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. Images take 521.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 16.9 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 521.1 kB
  • After minification 491.7 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. Internships Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 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 11.5 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. Internships.northwestern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (39%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Internships 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.

Network Requests Diagram

internships.northwestern.edu

internships.northwestern.edu

166 ms

www.internships.northwestern.edu

www.internships.northwestern.edu

204 ms

weinberg-dept-2016.css

weinberg-dept-2016.css

266 ms

department.css

department.css

111 ms

responsiveslides.css

responsiveslides.css

155 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

99 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

116 ms

responsiveslides.js

responsiveslides.js

375 ms

b99759e3-4b59-4990-a91a-49219f729669.css

b99759e3-4b59-4990-a91a-49219f729669.css

58 ms

CFS%20Summer%20Extension%202%20wide%20HP.jpg

CFS%20Summer%20Extension%202%20wide%20HP.jpg

304 ms

northwestern-university.svg

northwestern-university.svg

1143 ms

FSES%20HP.jpg

FSES%20HP.jpg

265 ms

CFSFellowsHP.jpg

CFSFellowsHP.jpg

234 ms

JoannaTangHP.jpg

JoannaTangHP.jpg

210 ms

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97 ms

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program-details-280x170.jpg

318 ms

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bullet.gif

274 ms

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424 ms

pin-drop.svg

pin-drop.svg

1182 ms

mobile-phone.svg

mobile-phone.svg

1183 ms

email.svg

email.svg

1183 ms

social-media-icons.png

social-media-icons.png

1177 ms

northwestern.png

northwestern.png

123 ms

m-search2.png

m-search2.png

121 ms

m-nav-icon.png

m-nav-icon.png

131 ms

calendar-icon.png

calendar-icon.png

131 ms

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219 ms

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AkkuratProBold.woff

1041 ms

AkkuratProRegular.woff

AkkuratProRegular.woff

1129 ms

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61 ms

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109 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

left-arrow-off.png

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85 ms

pause-off.png

pause-off.png

85 ms

right-arrow-off.png

right-arrow-off.png

701 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

weinberg-print.css

weinberg-print.css

80 ms

Accessibility Review

internships.northwestern.edu accessibility score

92

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

internships.northwestern.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

internships.northwestern.edu SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Internships.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 Internships.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

internships.northwestern.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Internships 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: