Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

cuchicago.edu

Concordia-Chicago | Concordia University Chicago

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

768 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cuchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cuchicago.edu performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cuchicago.edu

104 ms

cuchicago.edu

311 ms

css

81 ms

bootstrap.css

63 ms

owl.carousel.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Cuchicago.edu, 14% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (826 ms) belongs to the original domain Cuchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 643.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Cuchicago.edu main page is 4.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 9.3 kB, which is 20% 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 39.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 168.4 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Cu Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 205.0 kB

  • Original 307.3 kB
  • After minification 230.5 kB
  • After compression 102.4 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 205.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 231.4 kB

  • Original 264.1 kB
  • After minification 209.7 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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. Cuchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 231.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (31%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cu Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cuchicago.edu accessibility score

89

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cuchicago.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cuchicago.edu SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cuchicago.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that 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 description is not detected on the main page of Cu Chicago. 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: