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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

Northwestern Events Calendar: Home

Page Load Speed

968 ms in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

755 ms

Page Rendered

135 ms

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About Website

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Find Northwestern University events in a consolidated calendar (PlanIt Purple). Events include performances, concerts, workshops, lectures and more, many of which are open to the public.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Planitpurple.northwestern.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 890 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

planitpurple.northwestern.edu performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

78 ms

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

278 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

25 ms

common.css

48 ms

frontend.css

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Planitpurple.northwestern.edu, 24% (4 requests) were made to Common.northwestern.edu and 12% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (278 ms) belongs to the original domain Planitpurple.northwestern.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

112.8 kB

After Optimization

83.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Planitpurple.northwestern.edu main page is 112.8 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 53.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.2 kB, which is 35% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 27.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.5 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. Planitpurple Northwestern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 53.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Planitpurple.northwestern.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (54%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Planitpurple 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

78 ms

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

planitpurple.northwestern.edu

278 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

25 ms

common.css

common.css

48 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

99 ms

js

js

63 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

170 ms

calendarhome-min.js

calendarhome-min.js

170 ms

js

js

49 ms

northwestern.svg

northwestern.svg

184 ms

northwestern-university-horizontal.svg

northwestern-university-horizontal.svg

163 ms

academic_icon.gif

academic_icon.gif

97 ms

recurring_icon.png

recurring_icon.png

98 ms

print.css

print.css

23 ms

AkkuratProBold.woff

AkkuratProBold.woff

79 ms

AkkuratProRegular.woff

AkkuratProRegular.woff

77 ms

Accessibility Review

planitpurple.northwestern.edu accessibility score

92

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

planitpurple.northwestern.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

planitpurple.northwestern.edu SEO score

91

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 Planitpurple.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 Planitpurple.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

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