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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

dominican.edu

Dominican University of California | Private University in the SF Bay Area

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

About Website

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

Dominican University of California, located just 12 miles north of San Francisco, is known for excellence in academics, research, and engaged learning. Learn more about the Dominican Experience.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dominican.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dominican.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.dominican.edu

34 ms

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12 ms

vth8hab.css

105 ms

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31 ms

ping

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Dominican.edu, 38% (52 requests) were made to S.amazon-adsystem.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) relates to the external source Sync.rfp.fout.jp.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 546.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dominican.edu main page is 3.6 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 60.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 405.9 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Obviously, Dominican needs image optimization as it can save up to 405.9 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 351.8 kB
  • After minification 351.8 kB
  • After compression 294.7 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 57.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 94.2 kB
  • After minification 94.2 kB
  • After compression 71.9 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. Dominican.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (70%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dominican. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dominican.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

dominican.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

dominican.edu SEO score

91

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 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 Dominican.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 Dominican.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 description is not detected on the main page of Dominican. 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: