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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

enroll.niu.edu

NIU Undergraduate Admissions | Northern Illinois University

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Enroll.niu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 3.7 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

enroll.niu.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

212 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

202 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

214 ms

custom.css

62 ms

bootstrap.min.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Enroll.niu.edu, 23% (22 requests) were made to Niu.edu and 12% (11 requests) were made to Webbot.admithub.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Info.go-niu.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 161.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Enroll.niu.edu main page is 5.3 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. Javascripts take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 26.7 kB, which is 29% 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 76.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Enroll NIU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 MB
  • After compression 3.3 MB

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

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 345.3 kB
  • After minification 345.3 kB
  • After compression 326.4 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. Enroll.niu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (69%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Enroll NIU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

enroll.niu.edu accessibility score

85

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Best Practices

enroll.niu.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

enroll.niu.edu SEO score

71

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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