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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

chancellor.appstate.edu

Office of the Chancellor / Appalachian State University / Boone, North Carolina

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

629 ms

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

Visit chancellor.appstate.edu now to see the best up-to-date Chancellor App State content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chancellor.appstate.edu

Dr. Sheri Everts serves as chancellor of Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. Read her biography and messages to university constituents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chancellor.appstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 824 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

chancellor.appstate.edu performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chancellor.appstate.edu

177 ms

js

63 ms

_style.css

33 ms

style.css

58 ms

style-messages.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Chancellor.appstate.edu, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (177 ms) belongs to the original domain Chancellor.appstate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

411.7 kB

After Optimization

305.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chancellor.appstate.edu main page is 411.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 294.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 7.8 kB, which is 31% 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 20.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 294.0 kB
  • After minification 228.6 kB

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, Chancellor App State needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.4 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 79.6 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 64.8 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 14.8 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Chancellor.appstate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chancellor App State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chancellor.appstate.edu

chancellor.appstate.edu

177 ms

js

js

63 ms

_style.css

_style.css

33 ms

style.css

style.css

58 ms

style-messages.css

style-messages.css

90 ms

style-homepage.css

style-homepage.css

92 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

169 ms

breakpoints.js

breakpoints.js

94 ms

jquery.imagesloaded.js

jquery.imagesloaded.js

93 ms

masonry.pkgd.min.js

masonry.pkgd.min.js

94 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

97 ms

masonry-sitewide.js

masonry-sitewide.js

98 ms

matchheight-sitewide.js

matchheight-sitewide.js

100 ms

nav.js

nav.js

100 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

71 ms

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69 ms

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brandings-overlay-01.png

28 ms

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113 ms

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130 ms

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47 ms

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social-x-logo-400x400.png

29 ms

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92 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

Accessibility Review

chancellor.appstate.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 IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

chancellor.appstate.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

SEO Factors

chancellor.appstate.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

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 doesn't use 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 Chancellor.appstate.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 Chancellor.appstate.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

chancellor.appstate.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chancellor App State. 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: