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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

nd.edu

University of Notre Dame

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

925 ms

Page Rendered

729 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Nd content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nd.edu

The University of Notre Dame is a private research university inspired by its Catholic character to be a powerful force for good in the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nd.edu performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nd.edu

33 ms

www.nd.edu

34 ms

www.nd.edu

63 ms

gtm.js

76 ms

js

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Nd.edu, 14% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to News.nd.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (319 ms) relates to the external source Clarity.ms.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

654.3 kB

After Optimization

556.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Nd.edu main page is 654.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 522.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 130.4 kB
  • After minification 130.3 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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 97.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 387 B

  • Original 522.9 kB
  • After minification 522.5 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. Nd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 406 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 1.0 kB
  • After compression 627 B

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 406 B or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (36%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nd. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

nd.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nd.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

nd.edu SEO score

92

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

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 Nd.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 Nd.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 Nd. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: