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alumniconnect.nku.edu

Alumni: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

304 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Northern Kentucky University, a growing metropolitan university of more than 15,000 students served by nearly 2,600 faculty and staff on a thriving suburban campus near Cincinnati.  

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alumniconnect.nku.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 304 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alumniconnect.nku.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

alumniconnect.nku.edu

304 ms

alumni.html

371 ms

gas.min.js

115 ms

addthis_widget.js

14 ms

design-default.a6e5df816800b5f1d8584fe0b14f8ae1.js

366 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 Alumniconnect.nku.edu, 59% (40 requests) were made to Development.nku.edu and 12% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (371 ms) relates to the external source Development.nku.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (58%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

733.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Alumniconnect.nku.edu main page is 1.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 88.6 kB
  • After minification 87.0 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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. 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 63.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 428.1 kB
  • After minification 354.0 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. Obviously, Alumni Connect Nku needs image optimization as it can save up to 74.1 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 776.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 916.2 kB
  • After compression 338.0 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 776.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 103.8 kB
  • After minification 71.8 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Alumniconnect.nku.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (25%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alumni Connect Nku. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

alumniconnect.nku.edu SEO score

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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 Alumniconnect.nku.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 Alumniconnect.nku.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 Alumni Connect Nku. 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: