Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

news.rice.edu

Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

520 ms

news.rice.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit news.rice.edu now to see the best up-to-date News Rice content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about news.rice.edu

As the university’s primary outlet for official statements and information, Rice’s News and Media Relations team keeps the media and the institution’s broad community informed about the latest campus ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 237 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.rice.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.rice.edu

237 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

229 ms

campus-public.css

68 ms

widget.css

88 ms

jquery.js

347 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original News.rice.edu, 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain News.rice.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 751.2 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

877.6 kB

In fact, the total size of News.rice.edu main page is 1.6 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 849.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 103.0 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 129.4 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. 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 103.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 581.5 kB
  • After minification 554.1 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. News Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 567.3 kB

  • Original 849.1 kB
  • After minification 844.8 kB
  • After compression 281.8 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 567.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 58.7 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (55%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News 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 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.rice.edu accessibility score

91

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

news.rice.edu best practices score

62

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

news.rice.edu SEO score

98

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

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 News.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 News.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

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