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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ksu.edu

Kansas State University

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

973 ms

Page Rendered

346 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ksu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 42 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ksu.edu performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ksu.edu

42 ms

ksu.edu

34 ms

www.k-state.edu

115 ms

qra4olf.css

38 ms

ksu.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ksu.edu, 60% (25 requests) were made to K-state.edu and 7% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (653 ms) relates to the external source K-state.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ksu.edu main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 64.3 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 80.3 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 64.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Ksu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 525 B

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 77.7 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 468 B

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 38.2 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Ksu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (50%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ksu.edu

ksu.edu

42 ms

ksu.edu

ksu.edu

34 ms

www.k-state.edu

www.k-state.edu

115 ms

qra4olf.css

qra4olf.css

38 ms

ksu.css

ksu.css

14 ms

advisories.css

advisories.css

30 ms

highlight-boxes.css

highlight-boxes.css

31 ms

pathways.css

pathways.css

50 ms

home.css

home.css

34 ms

hero-video-min.js

hero-video-min.js

30 ms

view

view

166 ms

ksu.js

ksu.js

33 ms

advisories.js

advisories.js

36 ms

jquery-ui-ease.min.js

jquery-ui-ease.min.js

653 ms

noframework.waypoints.min.js

noframework.waypoints.min.js

81 ms

handlebars.js

handlebars.js

46 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

45 ms

news-list.js

news-list.js

36 ms

p.css

p.css

22 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

113 ms

visit.png

visit.png

13 ms

scholarship.png

scholarship.png

13 ms

apply.png

apply.png

11 ms

programs.jpg

programs.jpg

23 ms

manhattan.jpg

manhattan.jpg

12 ms

salina.jpg

salina.jpg

22 ms

global.jpg

global.jpg

21 ms

olathe.jpg

olathe.jpg

20 ms

ksu-purple.svg

ksu-purple.svg

18 ms

degreestats-black.svg

degreestats-black.svg

23 ms

d

d

3 ms

d

d

9 ms

nextgen.jpg

nextgen.jpg

36 ms

regional.jpg

regional.jpg

10 ms

1200px-Kansas_State_University_seal.png

1200px-Kansas_State_University_seal.png

8 ms

js

js

60 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

21 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

166 ms

lnx77a1ggt

lnx77a1ggt

166 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

15 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

136 ms

c.gif

c.gif

6 ms

Accessibility Review

ksu.edu accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ksu.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ksu.edu SEO score

91

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 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 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

ksu.edu

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