Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

cisac.stanford.edu

CISAC | FSI

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

399 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

351 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cisac.stanford.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 399 ms and then it took 2.9 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

cisac.stanford.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cisac.stanford.edu

399 ms

cisac.fsi.stanford.edu

579 ms

css_dQUmkOHGvhdsk3fw1ClcAv2fBIdCRpG6DXJhEQw3_TE.css

162 ms

css_6iB2AhcWPp7JPZ2E8eNHMXsCSeQ-U2L9t8O9ZACrXtY.css

166 ms

css_I0QbKvVtLgtkGtZaffb1uncERpnopLr_lFc9VaNqvUE.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cisac.stanford.edu, 86% (43 requests) were made to Cisac.fsi.stanford.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (823 ms) relates to the external source Cisac.fsi.stanford.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

897.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Cisac.stanford.edu main page is 2.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 90.0 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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 80.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

  • Original 670.5 kB
  • After minification 632.8 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. CISAC Stanford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 357.1 kB

  • Original 474.7 kB
  • After minification 363.9 kB
  • After compression 117.5 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 357.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 130.6 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. Cisac.stanford.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (35%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CISAC Stanford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cisac.stanford.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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

cisac.stanford.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cisac.stanford.edu SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Cisac.stanford.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 Cisac.stanford.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 CISAC Stanford. 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: