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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

emerson.edu

Graduate & Undergraduate Programs, Emerson College

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

358 ms

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About Website

Visit emerson.edu now to see the best up-to-date Emerson content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about emerson.edu

Emerson College offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in communication, the arts, and the liberal arts in Boston, Los Angeles, or online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emerson.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 2.7 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

emerson.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Emerson.edu, 20% (17 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Emerson.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (34%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emerson.edu main page is 4.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 73.1 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 60.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 145.1 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Emerson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 347.5 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 1.0 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 416.0 kB

  • Original 493.3 kB
  • After minification 477.2 kB
  • After compression 77.3 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. Emerson.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 416.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (37%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Emerson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

emerson.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

emerson.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

emerson.edu SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Emerson.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Emerson.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

emerson.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Emerson. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: