Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

lec.usm.edu

Office of Online Learning | The University of Southern Mississippi

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lec.usm.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lec.usm.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,690 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lec.usm.edu

213 ms

index.php

63 ms

oxm7gdi.css

126 ms

main.css

96 ms

oustyles.css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lec.usm.edu, 61% (14 requests) were made to Usm.edu and 22% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (781 ms) relates to the external source Usm.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

411.4 kB

After Optimization

344.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Lec.usm.edu main page is 411.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 296.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 36.8 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 28.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 296.4 kB
  • After minification 273.1 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. Lec Usm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 12.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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. Lec.usm.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (44%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lec 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lec.usm.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

lec.usm.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

lec.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 Lec.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 Lec.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 Lec 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: