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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 72

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

auburn.edu

Auburn University Homepage

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

339 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Visit auburn.edu now to see the best up-to-date Auburn content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about auburn.edu

Auburn University, one of the South’s largest universities, is a leader in arts and applied science education, and it brings a tradition of spirit to the responsive career preparation it offers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Auburn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 339 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

auburn.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

auburn.edu

339 ms

6328.js

53 ms

js

72 ms

bootstrap.min.css

57 ms

global.css

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Auburn.edu, 20% (21 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 17% (18 requests) were made to Wire.auburn.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Wire.auburn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

12.2 MB

After Optimization

11.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Auburn.edu main page is 12.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 103.4 kB
  • After minification 90.5 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.9 kB, which is 12% 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 80.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 144.7 kB

  • Original 11.5 MB
  • After minification 11.3 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. Auburn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 122.3 kB

  • Original 528.3 kB
  • After minification 523.4 kB
  • After compression 406.0 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 122.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 99.8 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. Auburn.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (33%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Auburn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

auburn.edu accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Names and labels

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.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

auburn.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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

auburn.edu SEO score

72

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Auburn.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 Auburn.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

auburn.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Auburn. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: