Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

engineering.wustl.edu

Home | McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineering.wustl.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 3.7 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

engineering.wustl.edu performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineering.wustl.edu

159 ms

merged-min.css

65 ms

analytics.js

402 ms

video-controls.js

401 ms

nojq-min.js

394 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Engineering.wustl.edu, 9% (2 requests) were made to Mckelveyengineeringnews.imgix.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Siteimproveanalytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Engineering.wustl.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Engineering.wustl.edu main page is 2.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 120.8 kB

  • Original 144.9 kB
  • After minification 126.5 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.4 kB, which is 13% 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 120.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Engineering Wu St L images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 218 B

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 163 B

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. Engineering.wustl.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (14%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineering Wu St L. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

engineering.wustl.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

engineering.wustl.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

SEO Factors

engineering.wustl.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Engineering.wustl.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 Engineering.wustl.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 data is detected on the main page of Engineering Wu St L. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: