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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    69% of websites

global.ksu.edu

Global Campus | Kansas State University's Online Learning Campus -

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Global.ksu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

global.ksu.edu performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

global.ksu.edu

182 ms

global.k-state.edu

42 ms

global.k-state.edu

130 ms

bootstrap.min.css

184 ms

styles-newhead-min.css

566 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Global.ksu.edu, 43% (29 requests) were made to Global.k-state.edu and 6% (4 requests) were made to Yui-s.yahooapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source I.simpli.fi.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 79.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

941.7 kB

After Optimization

861.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Global.ksu.edu main page is 941.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 778.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 58.3 kB
  • After minification 56.1 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 45.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 778.0 kB
  • After minification 750.2 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. Global Ksu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.6 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 120 B

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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. Global.ksu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (57%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Ksu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

global.ksu.edu

global.ksu.edu

182 ms

global.k-state.edu

global.k-state.edu

42 ms

global.k-state.edu

global.k-state.edu

130 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

184 ms

styles-newhead-min.css

styles-newhead-min.css

566 ms

layer-min.css

layer-min.css

564 ms

layer-min.css

layer-min.css

737 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1176 ms

yui-min.js

yui-min.js

1331 ms

scripts-newhead-min.js

scripts-newhead-min.js

1128 ms

disclosure-min.js

disclosure-min.js

1156 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

1292 ms

tether.min.js

tether.min.js

1355 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

1327 ms

mst0pyi.js

mst0pyi.js

1292 ms

dpx.js

dpx.js

2147 ms

js

js

1290 ms

dpx

dpx

1294 ms

header-masthead-seal.png

header-masthead-seal.png

501 ms

ksu-white.svg

ksu-white.svg

498 ms

bar-white.svg

bar-white.svg

440 ms

global-campus-white.svg

global-campus-white.svg

470 ms

search-white-40.png

search-white-40.png

471 ms

home-icon-sprites.png

home-icon-sprites.png

1260 ms

about-global-campus-main-header2.jpg

about-global-campus-main-header2.jpg

1327 ms

faculty-banner.jpg

faculty-banner.jpg

1289 ms

ufm-house.jpg

ufm-house.jpg

1287 ms

non-credit.png

non-credit.png

1261 ms

credit-courses-ufm.png

credit-courses-ufm.png

1260 ms

programs-services-ufm.png

programs-services-ufm.png

1267 ms

non-credit-programs.jpg

non-credit-programs.jpg

1264 ms

flexibility-icon.jpg

flexibility-icon.jpg

1291 ms

intersession-icon2.jpg

intersession-icon2.jpg

1265 ms

summer-icon2a.jpg

summer-icon2a.jpg

1264 ms

light-bkgrd-tile.png

light-bkgrd-tile.png

1298 ms

global-campus-logo-black.png

global-campus-logo-black.png

1292 ms

purple-bkgrd-tile.png

purple-bkgrd-tile.png

1294 ms

degreestats.png

degreestats.png

1293 ms

social-media.png

social-media.png

1292 ms

social-media.png

social-media.png

1257 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

138 ms

combo

combo

1237 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

425 ms

collect

collect

81 ms

collect

collect

819 ms

collect

collect

450 ms

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d

446 ms

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449 ms

d

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534 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

637 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

730 ms

bob_002.gif

bob_002.gif

509 ms

bob_002.gif

bob_002.gif

483 ms

collect

collect

381 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

442 ms

p.gif

p.gif

621 ms

combo

combo

183 ms

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2754676641229369

219 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

372 ms

associate-segment

associate-segment

176 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

358 ms

combo

combo

261 ms

396 ms

combo

combo

63 ms

41 ms

bob_002.gif

bob_002.gif

3 ms

bob_002.gif

bob_002.gif

4 ms

17 ms

Accessibility Review

global.ksu.edu accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

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.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

global.ksu.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

global.ksu.edu SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Global.ksu.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 Global.ksu.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

global.ksu.edu

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