Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

news.olemiss.edu

Ole Miss News - The official source for University of Mississippi news

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

235 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

748 ms

news.olemiss.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.olemiss.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 235 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

news.olemiss.edu performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.olemiss.edu

235 ms

style.css

144 ms

wp-filebase.css

75 ms

plugin-styles.css

76 ms

video-js.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original News.olemiss.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (466 ms) belongs to the original domain News.olemiss.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.1 kB (45%)

Content Size

915.0 kB

After Optimization

500.9 kB

In fact, the total size of News.olemiss.edu main page is 915.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 431.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 66.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 321.9 kB
  • After minification 312.6 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. News Ole Miss images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 277.4 kB

  • Original 431.4 kB
  • After minification 431.4 kB
  • After compression 154.0 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 277.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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.olemiss.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Ole Miss. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.olemiss.edu accessibility score

81

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

news.olemiss.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

news.olemiss.edu SEO score

71

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

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.olemiss.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.olemiss.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 Ole Miss. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: