Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

loras.edu

Loras College | Catholic, Liberal Arts | Dubuque, IA

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

694 ms

loras.edu screenshot

About Website

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Loras prepares you to seek truth through faith and reason, grow personally and intellectually, and enrich the lives of those around you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loras.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loras.edu performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.535

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.loras.edu

1325 ms

css

61 ms

formidablepro.css

120 ms

sb-instagram.css

116 ms

font-awesome.min.css

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Loras.edu, 3% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Loras.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (19%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Loras.edu main page is 5.7 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 57.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 409.5 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Loras images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 357.6 kB

  • Original 514.2 kB
  • After minification 473.7 kB
  • After compression 156.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 357.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 235.0 kB

  • Original 276.6 kB
  • After minification 237.3 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. Loras.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 235.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (47%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Loras. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

loras.edu accessibility score

78

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

loras.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

loras.edu SEO score

86

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

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

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