Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

rcel.rice.edu

Home - Rice Center for Engineering Leadership

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

362 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rcel.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 362 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rcel.rice.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rcel.rice.edu

362 ms

www.rcelconnect.org

2156 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

158 ms

css

92 ms

dashicons.min.css

249 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rcel.rice.edu, 83% (119 requests) were made to Rcelconnect.org and 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Rcelconnect.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (33%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Rcel.rice.edu main page is 3.4 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 101.9 kB
  • After minification 99.7 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 84.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB

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. Rcel Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 499.8 kB

  • Original 697.0 kB
  • After minification 611.5 kB
  • After compression 197.2 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 499.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 470.5 kB

  • Original 607.9 kB
  • After minification 547.1 kB
  • After compression 137.4 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. Rcel.rice.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 470.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (67%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rcel 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 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rcel.rice.edu accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rcel.rice.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rcel.rice.edu SEO score

75

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 doesn't use 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 Rcel.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 Rcel.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 Rcel 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: