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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

csulb.edu

California State University, Long Beach

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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

CSULB is a large, urban, comprehensive university in the 23-campus California State University system.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Csulb.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

csulb.edu performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.306

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

csulb.edu

216 ms

csulb.edu

284 ms

www.csulb.edu

375 ms

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59 ms

all.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Csulb.edu, 7% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (826 ms) belongs to the original domain Csulb.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 425.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Csulb.edu main page is 6.3 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 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 14.3 kB, which is 16% 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 75.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 348.7 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Csulb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 158.1 kB
  • After minification 158.1 kB
  • After compression 158.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 757 B

  • Original 104.1 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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. Csulb.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (33%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

39

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Csulb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

csulb.edu

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216 ms

csulb.edu

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284 ms

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375 ms

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43 ms

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Accessibility Review

csulb.edu accessibility score

93

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

csulb.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

csulb.edu SEO score

92

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

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 Csulb.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 Csulb.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

csulb.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Csulb. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: