Access admissions.cua.edu. Admission - The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,350 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

admissions.cua.edu

29 ms

index.html

43 ms

jquery.min.js

47 ms

header.js

21 ms

style.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Admissions.cua.edu, 44% (33 requests) were made to Catholic.edu and 12% (9 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (456 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Admissions.cua.edu main page is 4.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 182.7 kB

Original 193.0 kB
After minification 51.0 kB
After compression 10.3 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 142.0 kB, which is 74% 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 182.7 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 92.2 kB

Original 3.9 MB
After minification 3.8 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. Admission S CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 67.0 kB

Original 420.2 kB
After minification 420.2 kB
After compression 353.2 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 67.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

Original 113.7 kB
After minification 113.7 kB
After compression 101.0 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. Admissions.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission S CUA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Admissions.cua.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 Admissions.cua.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

admissions.cua.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Admission S CUA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Admission - The Catholic University of America, Washington DC | CUA

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.cua.edu

index.html

jquery.min.js

header.js

style.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

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