Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% 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

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

denison.edu

Denison University | A top liberal arts college located in Ohio

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Denison content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about denison.edu

Denison University is a leader among the nation's liberal arts colleges, offering some 60 academic programs to 2,200 students in Granville, Ohio.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Denison.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

denison.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,180 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

denison.edu

1693 ms

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93 ms

css_0ls4U5vV1HSmIanNveUEPrRoBp7a5OjAP980qAGgHSw.css

93 ms

e0477e02-bca8-4555-bf85-ac2cc61151ef.css

190 ms

css_XzszI2VGh3TR6gI-XVm_8_dJEYWMUZu8OyOt7-YCdRA.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Denison.edu, 65% (43 requests) were made to D2mfqolawl485u.cloudfront.net and 8% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Denison.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Denison.edu main page is 3.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 88.2 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. 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 65.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Denison images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 659.6 kB

  • Original 936.1 kB
  • After minification 829.4 kB
  • After compression 276.5 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 659.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 152.4 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. Denison.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (57%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Denison. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

denison.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

denison.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

denison.edu SEO score

86

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

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