Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

alec.tamu.edu

Home - Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications at Texas A&M. We prepare communicators of tomorrow.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alec.tamu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alec.tamu.edu performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.571

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alec.tamu.edu

163 ms

style.css

102 ms

layout.css

132 ms

style.css

76 ms

page-list.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Alec.tamu.edu, 22% (13 requests) were made to Aglifesciences.tamu.edu and 15% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (358 ms) relates to the external source Aglifesciences.tamu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 405.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Alec.tamu.edu main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 55.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 74.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Alec Tamu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 165.2 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 268.1 kB
  • After compression 103.6 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 165.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 109.7 kB

  • Original 135.4 kB
  • After minification 128.1 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. Alec.tamu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (45%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alec Tamu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alec.tamu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

alec.tamu.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

alec.tamu.edu SEO score

85

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

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 Alec.tamu.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 Alec.tamu.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 Alec Tamu. 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: