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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

admissions.niu.edu

NIU Undergraduate Admissions | Northern Illinois University

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

282 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.niu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 282 ms 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

admissions.niu.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.niu.edu

282 ms

168 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

221 ms

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240 ms

custom.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.niu.edu, 20% (22 requests) were made to Niu.edu and 11% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.taboola.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Admissions.niu.edu main page is 5.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 76.7 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 27.0 kB, which is 30% 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 76.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Admissions NIU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 MB
  • After compression 3.3 MB

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

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 345.3 kB
  • After minification 345.3 kB
  • After compression 326.4 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. Admissions.niu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (73%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions NIU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

admissions.niu.edu accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

admissions.niu.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

admissions.niu.edu SEO score

71

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Admissions.niu.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 Admissions.niu.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

admissions.niu.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Admissions NIU. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: