Access arts-sciences.cua.edu. School of Arts and Sciences - Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

arts-sciences.catholic.edu

32 ms

jquery.min.js

55 ms

header.js

54 ms

style.css

69 ms

custom.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Arts-sciences.cua.edu, 25% (16 requests) were made to Arts-sciences.catholic.edu and 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (550 ms) relates to the external source Arts-sciences.catholic.edu.

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Arts-sciences.cua.edu main page is 4.9 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. 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 164.2 kB

Original 175.1 kB
After minification 55.1 kB
After compression 11.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 120.1 kB, which is 69% 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 164.2 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

Original 4.5 MB
After minification 4.5 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. Arts Sciences CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

Original 166.1 kB
After minification 166.1 kB
After compression 134.3 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 31.8 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

Original 54.4 kB
After minification 54.4 kB
After compression 41.7 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. Arts-sciences.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arts Sciences 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 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 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 input fields do not have accessible names

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 semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

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 Arts-sciences.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 Arts-sciences.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

arts-sciences.cua.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Arts Sciences 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

School of Arts and Sciences - 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

arts-sciences.catholic.edu

jquery.min.js

header.js

style.css

custom.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

arts-sciences.catholic.edu

jquery.min.js

header.js

style.css

custom.css

css

material-design-iconic-font.min.css

touchSwipe.min.js

fastClick.js

lunr.min.js

flickity.js

flickity-imageLoaded.js

slick.js

object-fit-polyfill.js

mustache.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

bottom.js

news.js

profile-feed.js

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

elliance.tracking.js

gtm.js

gtm.js

arts-and-sciences.png

lunar_psycho_vrlab_0029-1200.jpg

VisionsofItaly1200x700.jpg

cua-logo-long.png

White-Board.jpg

Nnanya_Kalu_0012-600.jpg

maria_thurber_0011-600.jpg

GregMiller_Profile_00133-600.jpg

CUA-Seal-Footer.png

capture-7.jpg

capture-8.jpg

0d76ad8f-bbff-4457-b39b-cac503ba9463-matthew-michels1.jpg

img_8516.jpg

032621-brayan-hernandez-002-1---brayan-hernandez.jpg

fedf3d26-829e-4142-9c17-351dd77892ab_-_samantha_mcgrath1.jpg

headshot---abby-anger.jpg

img-14261.jpg

dsc08057-original---kathleen-oconnell.jpg

img_2433---peter-spence.jpg

image_6483441.jpg