Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

augustana.edu

Augustana College - A leading liberal arts and sciences college in Illinois

Page Load Speed

26.9 sec in total

First Response

526 ms

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

16.6 sec

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About Website

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Augustana is a selective, private liberal arts and sciences college, founded in 1860.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Augustana.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 526 ms and then it took 26.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

augustana.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,650 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

augustana.edu

526 ms

www.augustana.edu

557 ms

css_CatjEGA239jAw0C4jXL9eIGezXQThYyqRJhcBTKbYMk.css

228 ms

css_kgZwrgauBYvKAqVK-MGIkKkOXikwPyQGtCQj0oCfaGw.css

500 ms

eee1ea97-ecaa-471e-be94-7cb075ffaea7.css

834 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Augustana.edu, 19% (5 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Augustana.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (29%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Augustana.edu main page is 4.1 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. 75% 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 48.7 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 52.0 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 10.9 kB, which is 17% 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 48.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 119.6 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Augustana images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 547.3 kB

  • Original 784.0 kB
  • After minification 716.1 kB
  • After compression 236.7 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 547.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 459.7 kB

  • Original 541.8 kB
  • After minification 506.5 kB
  • After compression 82.1 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. Augustana.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 459.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (35%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Augustana. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

augustana.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

augustana.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

SEO Factors

augustana.edu SEO score

83

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