Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

choose.usm.edu

Admissions | The University of Southern Mississippi

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

776 ms

Page Rendered

373 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Choose.usm.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

choose.usm.edu performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

choose.usm.edu

106 ms

admissions

196 ms

48 ms

rxq3ycy.css

36 ms

main.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Choose.usm.edu, 65% (17 requests) were made to Usm.edu and 19% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (210 ms) relates to the external source Usm.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

973.4 kB

After Optimization

936.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Choose.usm.edu main page is 973.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 809.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 8.3 kB, which is 21% 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 32.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 809.4 kB
  • After minification 809.2 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. Choose Usm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 956 B

  • Original 77.8 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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. Choose.usm.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choose Usm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

choose.usm.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

choose.usm.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

choose.usm.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Choose.usm.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 Choose.usm.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 Choose Usm. 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: