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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

biosciences.rice.edu

Department of BioSciences | Wiess School of Natural Sciences | Rice University

Page Load Speed

926 ms in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

758 ms

Page Rendered

123 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biosciences.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 881 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

biosciences.rice.edu performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value34,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.244

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

biosciences.rice.edu

45 ms

biosciences.rice.edu

68 ms

google_tag.script.js

14 ms

css_HtNPdwmy22ORPNCrGKGei9y8y34o9NosVbjZlZcNAlI.css

12 ms

all.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Biosciences.rice.edu, 48% (21 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 11% (5 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (246 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.jsdelivr.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

540.5 kB

After Optimization

405.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Biosciences.rice.edu main page is 540.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 448.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 6.5 kB, which is 15% 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 32.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 448.4 kB
  • After minification 359.5 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. Obviously, Bio Sciences Rice needs image optimization as it can save up to 88.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 10.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 31.9 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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. Biosciences.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (80%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bio Sciences 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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45 ms

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68 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

14 ms

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12 ms

all.css

all.css

83 ms

slick.min.css

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76 ms

accessible-slick-theme.min.css

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89 ms

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105 ms

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173 ms

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106 ms

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224 ms

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223 ms

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246 ms

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69 ms

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26 ms

Rice_University_Horizontal_Blue.svg

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27 ms

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149 ms

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65 ms

Accessibility Review

biosciences.rice.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

biosciences.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

biosciences.rice.edu SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Biosciences.rice.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 Biosciences.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

biosciences.rice.edu

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