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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

civil.cua.edu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Catholic University, Washington DC | CUA

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

692 ms

Page Rendered

479 ms

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About Website

Visit civil.cua.edu now to see the best up-to-date Civil CUA content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about civil.cua.edu

Offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in civil engineering and environmental engineering, and a 5-year dual-degree bachelor's program with the School of Architecture.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Civil.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

civil.cua.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

42 ms

jquery.min.js

61 ms

header.js

70 ms

style.css

86 ms

custom.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Civil.cua.edu, 15% (7 requests) were made to Engineering.catholic.edu and 13% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) relates to the external source Engineering.catholic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

926.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Civil.cua.edu main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 761.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 154.4 kB

  • Original 164.8 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 113.5 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 154.4 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 761.4 kB
  • After minification 739.7 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. Civil 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. Civil.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 Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (67%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Civil 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 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

index.html

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

61 ms

header.js

header.js

70 ms

style.css

style.css

86 ms

custom.css

custom.css

76 ms

css

css

74 ms

material-design-iconic-font.min.css

material-design-iconic-font.min.css

71 ms

touchSwipe.min.js

touchSwipe.min.js

81 ms

fastClick.js

fastClick.js

81 ms

lunr.min.js

lunr.min.js

79 ms

flickity.js

flickity.js

135 ms

flickity-imageLoaded.js

flickity-imageLoaded.js

81 ms

slick.js

slick.js

130 ms

object-fit-polyfill.js

object-fit-polyfill.js

130 ms

mustache.js

mustache.js

130 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

73 ms

bottom.js

bottom.js

131 ms

news.js

news.js

131 ms

profile-feed.js

profile-feed.js

132 ms

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

132 ms

elliance.tracking.js

elliance.tracking.js

132 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

57 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

334 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

368 ms

civil-1200-virg.jpg

civil-1200-virg.jpg

348 ms

cua-logo-long.png

cua-logo-long.png

232 ms

CUA-Seal-Footer.png

CUA-Seal-Footer.png

230 ms

asce-virginia-1200.jpg

asce-virginia-1200.jpg

449 ms

110823-hard-hat-ceremony-engineering-002.jpg

110823-hard-hat-ceremony-engineering-002.jpg

354 ms

cropped-crane.jpeg

cropped-crane.jpeg

333 ms

asce-logo-1200.jpg

asce-logo-1200.jpg

339 ms

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350 ms

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422 ms

index.html

index.html

334 ms

ltw-logo.png

ltw-logo.png

85 ms

Material-Design-Iconic-Font.woff

Material-Design-Iconic-Font.woff

155 ms

Material-Design-Iconic-Font.woff

Material-Design-Iconic-Font.woff

85 ms

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304 ms

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303 ms

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303 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

204 ms

feed.json

feed.json

140 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

139 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

89 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

24 ms

Accessibility Review

civil.cua.edu accessibility score

85

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 are not valid or misspelled

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

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

civil.cua.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

civil.cua.edu SEO score

82

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 Civil.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 Civil.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

civil.cua.edu

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