Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

firstyear.ku.edu

KU Orientation | Orientation

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

876 ms

Page Rendered

428 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstyear.ku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 1.3 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

firstyear.ku.edu performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.414

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstyear.ku.edu

209 ms

system.base.css

61 ms

system.menus.css

66 ms

system.messages.css

66 ms

system.theme.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Firstyear.ku.edu, 26% (24 requests) were made to Webmedia.ku.edu and 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (260 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstyear.ku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

646.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Firstyear.ku.edu main page is 1.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 495.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 79.0 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. 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 66.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 495.3 kB
  • After minification 484.5 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. Firstyear KU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 251.4 kB

  • Original 366.2 kB
  • After minification 325.0 kB
  • After compression 114.8 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 251.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 80.6 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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. Firstyear.ku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (75%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstyear KU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 38 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firstyear.ku.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

firstyear.ku.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firstyear.ku.edu SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Firstyear.ku.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 Firstyear.ku.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 description is not detected on the main page of Firstyear KU. 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: