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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

risd.com

Rhode Island School of Design

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

Visit risd.com now to see the best up-to-date Risd content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about risd.com

Founded in 1877, RISD is one of the first art and design schools in the US. Our students engage in rigorous, studio-based learning and liberal arts studies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Risd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

risd.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

risd.com

82 ms

www.risd.edu

16 ms

www.risd.edu

54 ms

google_tag.script.js

18 ms

css_hI5AWZfK66kg3ITjtVBwwTBxEoBoVmbdtaplN-NRDww.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Risd.com, 49% (34 requests) were made to Risd.edu and 9% (6 requests) were made to Curator-assets.b-cdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (485 ms) relates to the external source Snap.licdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Risd.com main page is 2.3 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 170.1 kB

  • Original 228.7 kB
  • After minification 189.5 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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 39.2 kB, which is 17% 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 170.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 1.9 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. Risd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 162.1 kB
  • After minification 162.1 kB
  • After compression 130.0 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 32.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 244 B

  • Original 28.0 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Risd.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (48%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Risd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

risd.com

risd.com

82 ms

www.risd.edu

www.risd.edu

16 ms

www.risd.edu

www.risd.edu

54 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

18 ms

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29 ms

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31 ms

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bootstrap-grid.min.css

135 ms

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44 ms

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74 ms

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45 ms

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49 ms

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39 ms

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38 ms

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83 ms

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37 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

65 ms

ScrollMagic.min.js

ScrollMagic.min.js

83 ms

animation.gsap.min.js

animation.gsap.min.js

105 ms

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477 ms

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25 ms

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ga-audiences

93 ms

Accessibility Review

risd.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

risd.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

risd.com SEO score

93

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

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 Risd.com 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 Risd.com 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

risd.com

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