Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

cu-portland.edu

Concordia University | Concordia is a Christian University preparing leaders for the transformation of society.

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

720 ms

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

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Founded in 1905, Concordia University-Portland is a community-centered, nonprofit, Lutheran liberal arts university that prepares leaders for the transformation of society through career-ready degrees...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cu-portland.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 946 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cu-portland.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cu-portland.edu

59 ms

www.cu-portland.edu

114 ms

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8 ms

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8 ms

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17 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Cu-portland.edu, 32% (17 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (187 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (39%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Cu-portland.edu main page is 5.5 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 153.0 kB
  • After minification 147.4 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 124.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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, Cu Portland needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 742.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 368.0 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 742.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 265.0 kB

  • Original 325.3 kB
  • After minification 319.4 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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. Cu-portland.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 265.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (68%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cu Portland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cu-portland.edu SEO score

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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 Cu-portland.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 Cu-portland.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 description is not detected on the main page of Cu Portland. 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: