Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

career.cuchicago.edu

Online Master’s, DBA, & PhD/EdD Degrees Programs | CUChicago

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Career.cuchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

career.cuchicago.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

career.cuchicago.edu

358 ms

style.min.css

89 ms

cryptx.css

127 ms

style.css

139 ms

dashicons.min.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Career.cuchicago.edu, 5% (4 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source A.visitorqueue.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 309.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

994.8 kB

After Optimization

685.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Career.cuchicago.edu main page is 994.8 kB. 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 429.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 203.4 kB

  • Original 233.0 kB
  • After minification 226.8 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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 203.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 429.6 kB
  • After minification 394.8 kB

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. Career CUChicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 169.9 kB
  • After minification 169.2 kB
  • After compression 133.0 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 36.9 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 162.3 kB
  • After minification 161.8 kB
  • After compression 127.6 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. Career.cuchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.8 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (63%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Career CUChicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

career.cuchicago.edu accessibility score

83

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

career.cuchicago.edu best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

career.cuchicago.edu SEO score

85

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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