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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

communications.cua.edu

Communications - The Catholic University of America | CUA

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

801 ms

Page Rendered

840 ms

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About Website

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Located in Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America is the national university of the Catholic Church, founded by the U.S. bishops and the pope, faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Communications.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

communications.cua.edu performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

communications.catholic.edu

27 ms

jquery.min.js

49 ms

header.js

58 ms

style.css

74 ms

custom.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Communications.cua.edu, 18% (9 requests) were made to Communications.catholic.edu and 14% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (339 ms) relates to the external source Communications.catholic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (6%)

Content Size

17.0 MB

After Optimization

15.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Communications.cua.edu main page is 17.0 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 16.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 146.5 kB

  • Original 156.2 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 105.8 kB, which is 68% 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 146.5 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 840.3 kB

  • Original 16.6 MB
  • After minification 15.7 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. Communications 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. Communications.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 23 (58%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Communications 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

communications.catholic.edu

communications.catholic.edu

27 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

49 ms

header.js

header.js

58 ms

style.css

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74 ms

custom.css

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58 ms

css

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62 ms

material-design-iconic-font.min.css

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58 ms

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68 ms

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60 ms

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69 ms

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111 ms

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68 ms

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111 ms

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212 ms

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213 ms

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214 ms

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214 ms

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214 ms

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214 ms

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215 ms

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216 ms

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134 ms

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132 ms

CUA-Logo-Large.png

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120 ms

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121 ms

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116 ms

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120 ms

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164 ms

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47 ms

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58 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

communications.cua.edu accessibility score

87

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

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

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.

Best Practices

communications.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

communications.cua.edu SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Communications.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 Communications.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

communications.cua.edu

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