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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

professionalstudies.wfu.edu

Home Page - School of Professional Studies at Wake Forest University

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

434 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

596 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Professionalstudies.wfu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 434 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

professionalstudies.wfu.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.424

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

professionalstudies.wfu.edu

434 ms

sps.wfu.edu

1028 ms

gtm.js

176 ms

gtm.js

358 ms

ktmb0bqqf1

463 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Professionalstudies.wfu.edu, 34% (21 requests) were made to Sps.wfu.edu and 11% (7 requests) were made to B3371450.smushcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Sps.wfu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (30%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Professionalstudies.wfu.edu main page is 3.9 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 144.9 kB

  • Original 197.0 kB
  • After minification 185.1 kB
  • After compression 52.1 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 144.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 305.1 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Obviously, Professional Studies Wfu needs image optimization as it can save up to 305.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 206.3 kB

  • Original 383.1 kB
  • After minification 383.1 kB
  • After compression 176.8 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 206.3 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 539.4 kB

  • Original 609.9 kB
  • After minification 494.5 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. Professionalstudies.wfu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 539.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (63%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Professional Studies Wfu. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

professionalstudies.wfu.edu accessibility score

73

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 have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

professionalstudies.wfu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

professionalstudies.wfu.edu SEO score

86

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

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 Professionalstudies.wfu.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 Professionalstudies.wfu.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 Professional Studies Wfu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: