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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

summer.rice.edu

Rice Summer Programs | Summer Programs | Rice University

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Summer.rice.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 4.1 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

summer.rice.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

summer.rice.edu

107 ms

summer.rice.edu

54 ms

google_tag.script.js

25 ms

css_lA-_vDunoba6xeYNrg7fwHnsrKLavrgjcg7mRfC7rBs.css

29 ms

all.css

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Summer.rice.edu, 29% (19 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 8% (5 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (631 ms) relates to the external source Pro.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Summer.rice.edu main page is 2.5 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. 85% 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 102.8 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 80.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Summer Rice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 51.2 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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 10.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 32.0 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. Summer.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 29 (55%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Summer 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

summer.rice.edu

summer.rice.edu

107 ms

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54 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

25 ms

css_lA-_vDunoba6xeYNrg7fwHnsrKLavrgjcg7mRfC7rBs.css

css_lA-_vDunoba6xeYNrg7fwHnsrKLavrgjcg7mRfC7rBs.css

29 ms

all.css

all.css

148 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

181 ms

accessible-slick-theme.min.css

accessible-slick-theme.min.css

192 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

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194 ms

plyr.css

plyr.css

208 ms

app.css

app.css

217 ms

extra.min.css

extra.min.css

207 ms

js_WFMnnltchUPJ16ki1UYBoqxPG4aDKfZM8D3zNQg1BNY.js

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59 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

424 ms

focus-visible.min.js

focus-visible.min.js

203 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

441 ms

jquery.selectric.min.js

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451 ms

plyr.polyfilled.min.js

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451 ms

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172 ms

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485 ms

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444 ms

page.js

page.js

140 ms

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js_4FTefpxZkveZKJWspsTznvnHxYfvZxyehdsswyDr16s.js

95 ms

Shield.png

Shield.png

131 ms

Rice_University_Horizontal_Blue.svg

Rice_University_Horizontal_Blue.svg

103 ms

Book.woff

Book.woff

342 ms

TrajanPro-Regular.woff

TrajanPro-Regular.woff

341 ms

BookItalic.woff

BookItalic.woff

340 ms

Book.woff

Book.woff

368 ms

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368 ms

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fa-regular-400.woff

530 ms

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631 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

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576 ms

cse.js

cse.js

629 ms

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menu-background-summer.jpg.jpeg

528 ms

rice-summer.jpg.jpeg

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456 ms

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470 ms

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511 ms

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511 ms

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586 ms

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586 ms

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590 ms

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589 ms

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599 ms

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601 ms

community_0.png

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629 ms

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450 ms

Medium.woff

Medium.woff

247 ms

Bold.woff

Bold.woff

307 ms

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303 ms

gtm.js

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380 ms

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211 ms

sm.23.html

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289 ms

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169 ms

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184 ms

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195 ms

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159 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

305 ms

js

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302 ms

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261 ms

js

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532 ms

collect

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416 ms

nr-1216.min.js

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109 ms

Accessibility Review

summer.rice.edu accessibility score

90

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

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

Best Practices

summer.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

summer.rice.edu 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 Summer.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 Summer.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Summer Rice. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: