Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

me.umn.edu

Mechanical Engineering | College of Science and Engineering

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

948 ms

Page Rendered

192 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Me.umn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 111 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

me.umn.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

me.umn.edu

111 ms

reset.css

52 ms

text.css

54 ms

template.css

54 ms

optional.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Me.umn.edu, 18% (10 requests) were made to Cse.umn.edu and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (286 ms) belongs to the original domain Me.umn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Me.umn.edu main page is 4.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 3.0 kB, which is 15% 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 13.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 277.0 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Me Umn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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 47.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. Me.umn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (32%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Me Umn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

me.umn.edu accessibility score

91

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

me.umn.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

me.umn.edu SEO score

98

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Me.umn.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 Me.umn.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 Me Umn. 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: