Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

duq.edu

Duquesne University

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

3.3 sec

duq.edu screenshot

About Website

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Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and horizon-expanding education. A campus of nearly 8,000 graduate and under...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Duq.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 215 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

duq.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,220 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.duq.edu

215 ms

app.css

206 ms

theme.css

252 ms

oustyles.css

216 ms

ping

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Duq.edu, 16% (14 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Duqtemplates.oudeve.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Duq.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (13%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Duq.edu main page is 8.0 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 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 98.1 kB

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 22.6 kB, which is 19% 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 98.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 405.9 kB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Duq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 538.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 513.4 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 538.1 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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. Duq.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (67%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Duq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

duq.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

duq.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

duq.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Duq.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 Duq.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 Duq. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: