Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

library.webster.edu

Webster Library | Webster University Library

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

573 ms

library.webster.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit library.webster.edu now to see the best up-to-date Library Webster content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about library.webster.edu

Founded in 1915, Webster is an independent nonprofit university with students studying at campus locations in the U.S., around the globe and in a robust online learning environment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Library.webster.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

library.webster.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value41.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.211

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

library.webster.edu

44 ms

home

101 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

102 ms

font-awesome.min.css

104 ms

slick.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Library.webster.edu, 28% (12 requests) were made to Libapps.s3.amazonaws.com and 16% (7 requests) were made to Static-assets-us.libguides.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Templates2020.webster.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 715.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Library.webster.edu main page is 6.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 60.7 kB
  • After minification 55.4 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 47.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 662.0 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Obviously, Library Webster needs image optimization as it can save up to 662.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 229.5 kB
  • After minification 229.5 kB
  • After compression 224.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 479 B

  • Original 96.1 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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. Library.webster.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (53%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Library Webster. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

library.webster.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

library.webster.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

library.webster.edu SEO score

75

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Library.webster.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 Library.webster.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 Library Webster. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: