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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

philosophy.wisc.edu

Department of Philosophy – UW–Madison

Page Load Speed

717 ms in total

First Response

137 ms

Resources Loaded

323 ms

Page Rendered

257 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Philosophy.wisc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 137 ms and then it took 580 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

philosophy.wisc.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

philosophy.wisc.edu

137 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

64 ms

hoverIntent.js

61 ms

superfish.js

60 ms

main.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Philosophy.wisc.edu, 6% (1 request) were made to Analytics.lss.wisc.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (137 ms) belongs to the original domain Philosophy.wisc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.7 kB (54%)

Content Size

221.9 kB

After Optimization

103.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Philosophy.wisc.edu main page is 221.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 133.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. 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 10.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 49.2 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. Obviously, Philosophy Wisc needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 88.6 kB

  • Original 133.9 kB
  • After minification 131.0 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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 88.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Philosophy.wisc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (20%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Philosophy Wisc. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

philosophy.wisc.edu

philosophy.wisc.edu

137 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

64 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

61 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

60 ms

main.css

main.css

77 ms

wordmark.gif

wordmark.gif

48 ms

crest.png

crest.png

50 ms

sober2.jpg

sober2.jpg

61 ms

crest_gift.jpg

crest_gift.jpg

48 ms

card.jpg

card.jpg

60 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

93 ms

bgGradient-philosophy.jpg

bgGradient-philosophy.jpg

37 ms

dept_of_philosophy.gif

dept_of_philosophy.gif

31 ms

nav_bg.jpg

nav_bg.jpg

32 ms

nav_button_border.gif

nav_button_border.gif

44 ms

gift_background.jpg

gift_background.jpg

44 ms

Accessibility Review

philosophy.wisc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

philosophy.wisc.edu best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

philosophy.wisc.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Philosophy.wisc.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 Philosophy.wisc.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

philosophy.wisc.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Philosophy Wisc. 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: