Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

go.cmich.edu

CMU Chippewas | Mount Pleasant, MI | Central Michigan University

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

go.cmich.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to go.cmich.edu homepage info - get ready to check Go C MI Ch best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about go.cmich.edu

CMU is a public research university in Michigan that offers degree programs in Mount Pleasant, online and locations across North America. Est. 1892.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Go.cmich.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

go.cmich.edu performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.558

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

go.cmich.edu

218 ms

www.cmich.edu

172 ms

gtm.js

97 ms

WebResource.axd

10 ms

head.min.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Go.cmich.edu, 73% (45 requests) were made to Cmich.edu and 13% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cmich.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

363.0 kB

After Optimization

268.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Go.cmich.edu main page is 363.0 kB. 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 154.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 85.0 kB
  • After minification 71.8 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 13.2 kB, which is 15% 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 67.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 154.7 kB
  • After minification 154.7 kB

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. Go C MI Ch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 77.7 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 53.7 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 24.0 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 45.7 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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. Go.cmich.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (43%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go C MI Ch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

go.cmich.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

go.cmich.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

go.cmich.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Go.cmich.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 Go.cmich.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 data is detected on the main page of Go C MI Ch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: