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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

redesign.gcu.edu

Grand Canyon University: Private Christian University Phoenix AZ

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

532 ms

Page Rendered

361 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Redesign.gcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 893 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

redesign.gcu.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redesign.gcu.edu

170 ms

www.gcu.edu

142 ms

gtm.js

95 ms

home.css

18 ms

bootstrap.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Redesign.gcu.edu, 69% (24 requests) were made to Gcu.edu and 23% (8 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) belongs to the original domain Redesign.gcu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

448.3 kB

After Optimization

373.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Redesign.gcu.edu main page is 448.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 319.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 72.3 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 90.8 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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. 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 72.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 319.2 kB
  • After minification 316.5 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. Redesign Gcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 63 B

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. Redesign.gcu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Redesign Gcu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 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

redesign.gcu.edu accessibility score

75

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

redesign.gcu.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

SEO Factors

redesign.gcu.edu SEO score

77

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 Redesign.gcu.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 Redesign.gcu.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 Redesign Gcu. 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: