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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% 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

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

usj.edu

Homepage | University of Saint Joseph CT

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

562 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usj.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

usj.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value60.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,700 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value56.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usj.edu

160 ms

www.usj.edu

303 ms

font-awesome.min.css

40 ms

showpass-style.min.css

18 ms

showpass-flex-box.min.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Usj.edu, 6% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (730 ms) relates to the external source App.heyhalda.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (11%)

Content Size

14.8 MB

After Optimization

13.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usj.edu main page is 14.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 118.1 kB

  • Original 144.1 kB
  • After minification 143.4 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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 118.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 980.4 kB

  • Original 13.8 MB
  • After minification 12.8 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. Usj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 526.7 kB

  • Original 829.2 kB
  • After minification 829.2 kB
  • After compression 302.5 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 526.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. Usj.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (44%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Usj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

usj.edu accessibility score

98

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

Best Practices

usj.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

usj.edu SEO score

98

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