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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

northeastern.edu

Home - Northeastern University

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

northeastern.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Northeastern content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about northeastern.edu

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northeastern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northeastern.edu performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northeastern.edu

41 ms

www.northeastern.edu

104 ms

html5styles.css

123 ms

cac43e8c-6965-44df-b8ca-9784607a3b53.css

130 ms

mosaic.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Northeastern.edu, 6% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (435 ms) relates to the external source Graph.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (20%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northeastern.edu main page is 6.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 82.0 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 66.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 218.3 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.7 MB

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. Northeastern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 544.6 kB

  • Original 830.6 kB
  • After minification 803.5 kB
  • After compression 286.0 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 544.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 439.1 kB

  • Original 511.6 kB
  • After minification 481.3 kB
  • After compression 72.4 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. Northeastern.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 439.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (59%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northeastern. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northeastern.edu

northeastern.edu

41 ms

www.northeastern.edu

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104 ms

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123 ms

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130 ms

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53 ms

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93 ms

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70 ms

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Accessibility Review

northeastern.edu accessibility score

93

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

northeastern.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northeastern.edu SEO score

84

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

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 Northeastern.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 Northeastern.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

northeastern.edu

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