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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

history.columbusstate.edu

Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy - Columbus State University

Page Load Speed

22.4 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

21.6 sec

Page Rendered

731 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing History Columbus State content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about history.columbusstate.edu

Study history, geography, and philosophy at Columbus State University. CSU offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, internships, and study abroad opportunities. Learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed History.columbusstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 22.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

history.columbusstate.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history.columbusstate.edu

86 ms

87 ms

458 ms

bzj6ijy.css

68 ms

csu.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original History.columbusstate.edu, 36% (23 requests) were made to Columbusstate.edu and 19% (12 requests) were made to Shared.columbusstate.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Columbusstate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (20%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of History.columbusstate.edu main page is 5.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 126.6 kB
  • After minification 108.3 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 18.4 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 108.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 977.3 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Obviously, History Columbus State needs image optimization as it can save up to 977.3 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 167.7 kB
  • After minification 167.7 kB
  • After compression 166.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 51.6 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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. History.columbusstate.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (46%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History Columbus State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

history.columbusstate.edu

history.columbusstate.edu

86 ms

87 ms

458 ms

bzj6ijy.css

bzj6ijy.css

68 ms

csu.css

csu.css

169 ms

all.min.css

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71 ms

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87 ms

slick-slideshows.css

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55 ms

department-homepage.css

department-homepage.css

85 ms

css

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103 ms

cse.js

cse.js

83 ms

alert.prod.js

alert.prod.js

97 ms

csu-logo.png

csu-logo.png

111 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

78 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

80 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

64 ms

all.min.js

all.min.js

98 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

138 ms

cookiealert.js

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79 ms

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139 ms

faculty_slider.js

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101 ms

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76 ms

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249 ms

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262 ms

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324 ms

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342 ms

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csu-circle-bg-blue.png

282 ms

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csu-circle-bg-red.png

282 ms

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380 ms

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282 ms

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291 ms

slick.ttf

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142 ms

slick.svg

slick.svg

137 ms

Accessibility Review

history.columbusstate.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

history.columbusstate.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

history.columbusstate.edu SEO score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 History.columbusstate.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 History.columbusstate.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

history.columbusstate.edu

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