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ctuonline.edu

Online Degree Programs, Undergraduate and Graduate | CTU

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

189 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctuonline.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 189 ms and then it took 1.8 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

ctuonline.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.ctuonline.edu

189 ms

www.coloradotech.edu

166 ms

new-all.css

74 ms

main.css

79 ms

flexslider-v2.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ctuonline.edu, 83% (57 requests) were made to Coloradotech.edu and 3% (2 requests) were made to S.btstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (323 ms) relates to the external source Coloradotech.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (48%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Ctuonline.edu main page is 4.0 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. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 98.1 kB

  • Original 122.6 kB
  • After minification 114.2 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. 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 98.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. CTU Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 437.0 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 1.2 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 587.7 kB

  • Original 686.0 kB
  • After minification 579.9 kB
  • After compression 98.4 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. Ctuonline.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 587.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (68%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CTU Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ctuonline.edu SEO score

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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 Ctuonline.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 Ctuonline.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 description is not detected on the main page of CTU Online. 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: