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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

cogsci.rice.edu

Cognitive Sciences | Rice University

Page Load Speed

29.9 sec in total

First Response

14.4 sec

Resources Loaded

15.4 sec

Page Rendered

125 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cogsci.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 14.4 sec and then it took 15.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cogsci.rice.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cogsci.rice.edu

14424 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

226 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

687 ms

reset.css

141 ms

text.css

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Cogsci.rice.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (14.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Cogsci.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.1 kB (55%)

Content Size

253.2 kB

After Optimization

113.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cogsci.rice.edu main page is 253.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 133.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 17.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 81 B

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 84.1 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. Cogsci Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 112.5 kB

  • Original 133.6 kB
  • After minification 76.0 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 112.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. Cogsci.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (19%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cogsci 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cogsci.rice.edu

cogsci.rice.edu

14424 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

226 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

ektron.javascript.ashx

687 ms

reset.css

reset.css

141 ms

text.css

text.css

149 ms

960.css

960.css

149 ms

style_cognsci.css

style_cognsci.css

167 ms

jquery-1.2.6.js

jquery-1.2.6.js

330 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

243 ms

logo_rice3.gif

logo_rice3.gif

82 ms

btn_go.gif

btn_go.gif

80 ms

bar.gif

bar.gif

82 ms

cogsci_title.gif

cogsci_title.gif

102 ms

eecfb18e-14d4-46e2-b862-10740d35574a.jpg

eecfb18e-14d4-46e2-b862-10740d35574a.jpg

149 ms

3d4151e2-a4cb-4fc8-8ee7-b05b6c02cae0.jpg

3d4151e2-a4cb-4fc8-8ee7-b05b6c02cae0.jpg

107 ms

5e648181-ff30-4c8c-b1cf-3f0f46d3ea8e.jpg

5e648181-ff30-4c8c-b1cf-3f0f46d3ea8e.jpg

142 ms

810d7efe-0a57-4932-beae-f124a63c29c8.jpg

810d7efe-0a57-4932-beae-f124a63c29c8.jpg

143 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

131 ms

background.gif

background.gif

119 ms

greyarrow2.gif

greyarrow2.gif

124 ms

bottom.gif

bottom.gif

148 ms

close.gif

close.gif

82 ms

Accessibility Review

cogsci.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

cogsci.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

cogsci.rice.edu SEO score

93

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cogsci.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 Cogsci.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

cogsci.rice.edu

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