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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

admission.ursinus.edu

A Top Liberal Arts College in Pennsylvania | Ursinus College

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

988 ms

Page Rendered

847 ms

About Website

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Located 25 miles from Philadelphia, Ursinus is consistently ranked in the top tier of National Liberal Arts Colleges by U.S. News & World Report.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admission.ursinus.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admission.ursinus.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.336

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ursinus.edu

42 ms

www.ursinus.edu

28 ms

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16 ms

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17 ms

%5C_i%5Cthemes%5Cglobal%5Cstyles%5Clivewhale.rev.1711989036.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Admission.ursinus.edu, 81% (52 requests) were made to Ursinus.edu and 5% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (591 ms) relates to the external source App.heyhalda.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Admission.ursinus.edu main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 44.5 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 11% 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 35.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Admission Ursinus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 664 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 1.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Admission.ursinus.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (28%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission Ursinus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 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

admission.ursinus.edu accessibility score

95

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

admission.ursinus.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

admission.ursinus.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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