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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

emerson.edu

Emerson College, Undergraduate & Graduate Programs in Boston

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

859 ms

Page Rendered

627 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 48 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

emerson.edu performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

emerson.edu

48 ms

emerson.edu

27 ms

js

62 ms

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10 ms

css_OHLZBeEZv8Tj6NZ6LQc2vnBUq6uBB6w-W9s9E0Fi_PU.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Emerson.edu, 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Api.meritpages.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (154 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 778.5 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emerson.edu main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 147.6 kB
  • After minification 126.7 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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 20.9 kB, which is 14% 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 111.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 75.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 973.9 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. Emerson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 144.6 kB
  • After minification 144.6 kB
  • After compression 115.7 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 29.0 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 562.5 kB

  • Original 623.2 kB
  • After minification 614.2 kB
  • After compression 60.7 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. Emerson.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 562.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (42%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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emerson.edu

48 ms

emerson.edu

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27 ms

js

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62 ms

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css_mepvELpylhojSJUPGzckVbxmyE_vxaTTFH2SW5z8EqE.css

10 ms

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css_OHLZBeEZv8Tj6NZ6LQc2vnBUq6uBB6w-W9s9E0Fi_PU.css

26 ms

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b7fec46e19938e5456fe01e8076267e3.js

53 ms

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25 ms

merit.js

merit.js

48 ms

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22 ms

eu_cookie_compliance.min.js

eu_cookie_compliance.min.js

26 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

113 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

93 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

58 ms

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jewel-1024x683.jpg

112 ms

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Feature_Journalim_Matt-Shearer-1000x1000.jpg

112 ms

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inauguration_events_edgar_allen_poe_southwick_recital_with_jay_bernhardt.jpg

113 ms

Plougshares_reading.png

Plougshares_reading.png

115 ms

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113 ms

jewel-1024x683.jpg

jewel-1024x683.jpg

114 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

154 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

151 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

121 ms

events.js

events.js

151 ms

BauerBodoniBold_bold_normal.woff

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30 ms

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30 ms

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16 ms

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15 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

112 ms

saq_pxl

saq_pxl

6 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

emerson.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

emerson.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

    EN

  • 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 it matches the claimed language. 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

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