Access emu.edu. EMU | A private liberal arts university in Harrisonburg, VA

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

emu.edu

27 ms

emu.edu

34 ms

slick.css

10 ms

slick-theme.css

11 ms

oustyles.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Emu.edu, 4% (4 requests) were made to Emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (613 ms) relates to the external source My.emu-now.org.

Content Size

11.0 MB

After Optimization

10.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Emu.edu main page is 11.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

Original 49.8 kB
After minification 45.9 kB
After compression 10.5 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 39.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 910.9 kB

Original 10.8 MB
After minification 9.9 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. EMU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

Original 193.7 kB
After minification 193.6 kB
After compression 187.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

Original 25.9 kB
After minification 25.9 kB
After compression 21.7 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. Emu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EMU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Emu.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 Emu.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

emu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of EMU. 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

EMU | A private liberal arts university in Harrisonburg, VA

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

emu.edu

emu.edu

slick.css

slick-theme.css

oustyles.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

emu.edu

emu.edu

slick.css

slick-theme.css

oustyles.css

globalNavigation-v5.css

globalFooter-v1.css

masterStyle-v12.css

undergradNavStyle-v1.css

mainIndex-v7.css

alertStyle2018.css

cms-p13n.js

matomo.js

adp.min.js

6550.js

js

jquery.3.3.1.min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.csv.min.js

outcomesScript-v1.js

masterScript-v4.js

globalFooter-v1.js

globalNavigation-v20.js

cookieScript-v1.js

slick.js

direct-edit.js

jsapi

homepage-v6.js

undergradNavScript-v2.js

js3

loader.js

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