Access national.edu. Online Degree Programs | National American University

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,090 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.7 s

0/100

10%

www.national.edu

1447 ms

gtm.js

1635 ms

dashicons.min.css

1006 ms

display.css

866 ms

display.css

865 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original National.edu, 8% (10 requests) were made to and 4% (5 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.yoshki.com.

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of National.edu main page is 4.4 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 153.8 kB

Original 187.7 kB
After minification 170.7 kB
After compression 33.9 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 153.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

Original 1.6 MB
After minification 1.6 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. National images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 964.5 kB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.2 MB
After compression 468.2 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 964.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 700.4 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 1.1 MB
After compression 492.2 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. National.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 700.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

PHP BLOGINFO( 'CHARSET' ); ?>

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise National.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that National.edu main page’s claimed encoding is php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

national.edu

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Online Degree Programs | National American University

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

www.national.edu

gtm.js

dashicons.min.css

display.css

display.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

www.national.edu

gtm.js

dashicons.min.css

display.css

display.css

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exoboy-theme-styles.css

nau-contact-explorer-styles.css

nau-disclosure-explorer-styles.css

css

css

nau-programs-explorer-styles.css

jquery.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

cforms.js

nau-rfi-central-scripts-client.js

zbcanvas.js

exoboy-scripts.js

nau-contact-explorer-scripts.js

nau-disclosure-explorer-scripts.js

api.js

style.css

ibp_clickto_referral.js

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mouse.min.js

resizable.min.js

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position.min.js

dialog.min.js

nau-programs-explorer-scripts.js

wp-embed.min.js

conversion.js

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roundtrip.js

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recaptcha__en.js

analytics.js

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