Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

millikin.edu

Home | Millikin University

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

507 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

millikin.edu screenshot

About Website

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Millikin University in Decatur, IL offers Performance Learning combining theory and practice. With 1,800 students, it provides immersive experiences.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Millikin.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

millikin.edu performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

millikin.edu

30 ms

millikin.edu

36 ms

merit.js

39 ms

css_aaIS_u5xd4SnzMghKNNwM3w48N68iHrUHoS9884KpIk.css

9 ms

banded-banner.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Millikin.edu, 3% (2 requests) were made to Api.meritpages.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Adp.eab.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) relates to the external source Start.millikin-info.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Millikin.edu main page is 6.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 62.4 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.1 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 62.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Millikin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 73.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. Millikin.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (51%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Millikin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

millikin.edu accessibility score

98

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

Best Practices

millikin.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

millikin.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Millikin.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 Millikin.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 Millikin. 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: