Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

alumni.gcu.edu

GCU Office of Alumni Relations - GCU Alumni

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

639 ms

Page Rendered

569 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alumni.gcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alumni.gcu.edu performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alumni.gcu.edu

57 ms

alumni.gcu.edu

74 ms

style.min.css

19 ms

style-index.css

30 ms

style-index.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Alumni.gcu.edu, 33% (11 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (395 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

900.7 kB

After Optimization

849.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Alumni.gcu.edu main page is 900.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 721.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 41.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 721.6 kB
  • After minification 714.3 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. Alumni GCU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 71.1 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 71.0 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 55.1 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. Alumni.gcu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alumni GCU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alumni.gcu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Best Practices

alumni.gcu.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

alumni.gcu.edu SEO score

90

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