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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

arch.rice.edu

Architecture | Rice University

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

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About Website

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We are the smallest professional degree program situated within a top research university, allowing individual attention with the breadth of study afforded by a major university.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arch.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Arch.rice.edu rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

arch.rice.edu performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arch.rice.edu

3065 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

97 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

759 ms

normalize.css

121 ms

webflow.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Arch.rice.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Arch.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 396.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

690.3 kB

After Optimization

293.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arch.rice.edu main page is 690.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 361.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 4.6 kB, which is 13% 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 26.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 202.4 kB
  • After minification 173.7 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. Obviously, Arch Rice needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 263.4 kB

  • Original 361.5 kB
  • After minification 303.4 kB
  • After compression 98.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 263.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 91.2 kB
  • After minification 67.6 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. Arch.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (53%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arch Rice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arch.rice.edu

arch.rice.edu

3065 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

97 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

ektron.javascript.ashx

759 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

121 ms

webflow.css

webflow.css

165 ms

archricessp.webflow.css

archricessp.webflow.css

207 ms

camera.css

camera.css

251 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

81 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

145 ms

camera.min.js

camera.min.js

219 ms

jquery.mobile.customized.min.js

jquery.mobile.customized.min.js

339 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

181 ms

webflow.js

webflow.js

367 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

234 ms

jquery.vgrid.0.1.6.min.js

jquery.vgrid.0.1.6.min.js

233 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

261 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.2.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.2.js

289 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.2.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.2.css

286 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

317 ms

RSA_Logo_white.png

RSA_Logo_white.png

74 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

102 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

106 ms

flickr.png

flickr.png

105 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

106 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

101 ms

archricelogo_footer.png

archricelogo_footer.png

104 ms

ricelogo_36.png

ricelogo_36.png

135 ms

RSA_Light.v8.otf

RSA_Light.v8.otf

179 ms

RSA_Regular.v22.otf

RSA_Regular.v22.otf

139 ms

RSA_Black.otf

RSA_Black.otf

177 ms

RSA_Bold.otf

RSA_Bold.otf

178 ms

ga.js

ga.js

70 ms

camera_skins.png

camera_skins.png

57 ms

camera-loader.gif

camera-loader.gif

59 ms

2016-SyntheticBanner.jpg

2016-SyntheticBanner.jpg

106 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

57 ms

2015-ThesisBook.jpg

2015-ThesisBook.jpg

99 ms

Accessibility Review

arch.rice.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

arch.rice.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

SEO Factors

arch.rice.edu SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Arch.rice.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Arch.rice.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

arch.rice.edu

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