Access announcements.cua.edu. Academic Announcements - Enrollment Services - Catholic University of America

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.45

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

index.html

60 ms

jquery.min.js

80 ms

header.js

90 ms

style.css

105 ms

custom.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Announcements.cua.edu, 16% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (318 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Content Size

397.9 kB

After Optimization

234.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Announcements.cua.edu main page is 397.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 166.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 104.8 kB

Original 113.8 kB
After minification 45.5 kB
After compression 9.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 68.3 kB, which is 60% 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 104.8 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

Original 63.5 kB
After minification 48.9 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, Announcements CUA needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 23% 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 31.8 kB

Original 166.1 kB
After minification 166.1 kB
After compression 134.3 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 31.8 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

Original 54.4 kB
After minification 54.4 kB
After compression 41.7 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. Announcements.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Announcements CUA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.