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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% 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

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

english.cua.edu

English Department - Catholic University of America | CUA

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

848 ms

Page Rendered

705 ms

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About Website

Welcome to english.cua.edu homepage info - get ready to check English CUA best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about english.cua.edu

The Department of English at Catholic University is dedicated to the study of literature: learning its history and searching its aesthetic depths.

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Key Findings

We analyzed English.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 70 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

english.cua.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

70 ms

jquery.min.js

74 ms

header.js

72 ms

style.css

97 ms

custom.css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original English.cua.edu, 19% (11 requests) were made to English.catholic.edu and 16% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) relates to the external source Success.catholic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 207.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of English.cua.edu main page is 3.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 142.1 kB

  • Original 151.6 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 108.2 kB, which is 71% 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 142.1 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. English CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 166.0 kB
  • After minification 166.0 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 12.8 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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. English.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (58%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of English 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 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

index.html

index.html

70 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

74 ms

header.js

header.js

72 ms

style.css

style.css

97 ms

custom.css

custom.css

73 ms

css

css

92 ms

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88 ms

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85 ms

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82 ms

fastClick.js

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82 ms

lunr.min.js

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82 ms

flickity.js

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90 ms

flickity-imageLoaded.js

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82 ms

slick.js

slick.js

88 ms

object-fit-polyfill.js

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86 ms

mustache.js

mustache.js

82 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

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88 ms

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303 ms

news.js

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88 ms

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302 ms

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303 ms

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307 ms

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223 ms

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399 ms

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409 ms

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514 ms

widgets.js

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383 ms

cua-logo-long.png

cua-logo-long.png

177 ms

CUA-Seal-Footer.png

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171 ms

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242 ms

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239 ms

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241 ms

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240 ms

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47 ms

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52 ms

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48 ms

Accessibility Review

english.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

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

english.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

english.cua.edu SEO score

81

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 English.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 English.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

english.cua.edu

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