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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

success.cua.edu

Center for Academic and Career Success | The Catholic University of America - Washington, DC | CUA

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

888 ms

Page Rendered

601 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Success.cua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.5 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

success.cua.edu performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

success.catholic.edu

44 ms

jquery.min.js

81 ms

header.js

80 ms

style.css

99 ms

custom.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Success.cua.edu, 16% (8 requests) were made to Success.catholic.edu and 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 767.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Success.cua.edu main page is 5.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 133.6 kB

  • Original 142.9 kB
  • After minification 43.8 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 99.1 kB, which is 69% 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 133.6 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 557.7 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Success CUA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 63.7 kB

  • Original 198.0 kB
  • After minification 198.0 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 63.7 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 54.4 kB
  • After minification 54.4 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Success.cua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (64%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Success 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

success.catholic.edu

success.catholic.edu

44 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

81 ms

header.js

header.js

80 ms

style.css

style.css

99 ms

custom.css

custom.css

79 ms

css

css

120 ms

material-design-iconic-font.min.css

material-design-iconic-font.min.css

96 ms

touchSwipe.min.js

touchSwipe.min.js

78 ms

fastClick.js

fastClick.js

91 ms

lunr.min.js

lunr.min.js

91 ms

flickity.js

flickity.js

114 ms

flickity-imageLoaded.js

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115 ms

slick.js

slick.js

91 ms

object-fit-polyfill.js

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91 ms

mustache.js

mustache.js

115 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

114 ms

bottom.js

bottom.js

114 ms

news.js

news.js

91 ms

profile-feed.js

profile-feed.js

115 ms

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

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115 ms

elliance.tracking.js

elliance.tracking.js

115 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

203 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

410 ms

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304 ms

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656 ms

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353 ms

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229 ms

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351 ms

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228 ms

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353 ms

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354 ms

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123 ms

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122 ms

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123 ms

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285 ms

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285 ms

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283 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

242 ms

nestfeed.php

nestfeed.php

197 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

101 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

22 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

14 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

js

js

40 ms

api.js

api.js

9 ms

Accessibility Review

success.cua.edu accessibility score

86

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

success.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

success.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 Success.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 Success.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

success.cua.edu

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