Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% 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

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

mailman.stanford.edu

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

91 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mailman.stanford.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mailman.stanford.edu performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mailman.stanford.edu

259 ms

tools

604 ms

tools

330 ms

tools

379 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mailman.stanford.edu, 68% (26 requests) were made to Uit.stanford.edu and 11% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Uit.stanford.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 442.4 kB (75%)

Content Size

588.1 kB

After Optimization

145.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Mailman.stanford.edu main page is 588.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 359.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 10 B

  • Original 108 B
  • After minification 108 B
  • After compression 98 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 145.6 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 199.4 kB
  • After compression 83.0 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 145.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 296.8 kB

  • Original 359.4 kB
  • After minification 347.1 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. Mailman.stanford.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 296.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (91%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mailman 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mailman.stanford.edu 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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

mailman.stanford.edu 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

SEO Factors

mailman.stanford.edu SEO score

96

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mailman.stanford.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Mailman.stanford.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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