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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

mis.umsl.edu

Information Systems and Technology Department | UMSL

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mis.umsl.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 1.4 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

mis.umsl.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,360 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mis.umsl.edu

244 ms

bootstrap-secondary.css

148 ms

umsl-main-secondary-new.css

472 ms

respond.min.js

90 ms

alum.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Mis.umsl.edu, 54% (26 requests) were made to Umsl.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) relates to the external source Umsl.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 561.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mis.umsl.edu main page is 1.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 817.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 53.4 kB

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 21.5 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 53.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 643.3 kB
  • After minification 619.3 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. Mis UMSL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 229.3 kB
  • After minification 228.8 kB
  • After compression 146.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 82.4 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 401.5 kB

  • Original 817.9 kB
  • After minification 801.8 kB
  • After compression 416.4 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. Mis.umsl.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 401.5 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (33%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mis UMSL. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mis.umsl.edu

mis.umsl.edu

244 ms

bootstrap-secondary.css

bootstrap-secondary.css

148 ms

umsl-main-secondary-new.css

umsl-main-secondary-new.css

472 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

90 ms

alum.js

alum.js

52 ms

alum3.js

alum3.js

85 ms

alum2.js

alum2.js

86 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

25 ms

umsl-main-secondary.js

umsl-main-secondary.js

322 ms

bootstrap-secondary.js

bootstrap-secondary.js

88 ms

2abe71

2abe71

23 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

31 ms

close.png

close.png

48 ms

donate.jpg

donate.jpg

175 ms

ismajorbecause.jpg

ismajorbecause.jpg

129 ms

bizintelligence.jpg

bizintelligence.jpg

104 ms

xtreem.jpg

xtreem.jpg

219 ms

club.jpg

club.jpg

126 ms

freesoftware.jpg

freesoftware.jpg

100 ms

mentoring.jpg

mentoring.jpg

180 ms

cybersec.jpg

cybersec.jpg

218 ms

IS_Department_Picture.jpg

IS_Department_Picture.jpg

289 ms

fb.jpg

fb.jpg

170 ms

linkedin.jpg

linkedin.jpg

214 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

216 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

96 ms

prev.png

prev.png

95 ms

next.png

next.png

94 ms

secondary-logo-header.png

secondary-logo-header.png

93 ms

hamburger.png

hamburger.png

96 ms

search.png

search.png

97 ms

home-white.png

home-white.png

98 ms

slideshow-arrow-left.png

slideshow-arrow-left.png

99 ms

slideshow-arrow-right.png

slideshow-arrow-right.png

99 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

101 ms

maps.png

maps.png

210 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

152 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

112 ms

collect

collect

58 ms

DonImholz.jpg

DonImholz.jpg

149 ms

twitter-active.png

twitter-active.png

97 ms

facebook-active.png

facebook-active.png

97 ms

flickr-active.png

flickr-active.png

131 ms

umsl-mobile-active.png

umsl-mobile-active.png

132 ms

collect

collect

66 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf

glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf

46 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg

glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg

47 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

10 ms

Accessibility Review

mis.umsl.edu accessibility score

79

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

mis.umsl.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mis.umsl.edu SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Mis.umsl.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 Mis.umsl.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

mis.umsl.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mis UMSL. 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: