Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

texastech.edu

Texas Tech University System | Texas Tech University System

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Texastech.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

texastech.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

texastech.edu

191 ms

www.texastech.edu

383 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

52 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

102 ms

normalize.css

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Texastech.edu, 4% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Texastech.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 273.6 kB (1%)

Content Size

25.8 MB

After Optimization

25.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Texastech.edu main page is 25.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 25.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 27.4 kB, which is 35% 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 68.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 25.5 MB
  • After minification 25.3 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. Texas Tech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 168.8 kB
  • After minification 168.7 kB
  • After compression 166.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Texastech.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (34%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Texas Tech. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

texastech.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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

texastech.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

texastech.edu SEO score

82

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Texastech.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 Texastech.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 Texas Tech. 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: