Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

ec.nau.edu

Online and Innovative Educational Initiatives | Northern Arizona University

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

647 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ec.nau.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 4.2 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

ec.nau.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ec.nau.edu

332 ms

148 ms

gtm.js

95 ms

lwj6mlz.js

144 ms

style.min.css

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ec.nau.edu, 44% (45 requests) were made to Nau.edu and 14% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Nau.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

763.7 kB

After Optimization

644.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Ec.nau.edu main page is 763.7 kB. 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 554.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 116.1 kB

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 133.5 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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. 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 116.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 554.1 kB
  • After minification 551.9 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. Ec Nau images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 926 B

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 39.0 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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. Ec.nau.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (73%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ec Nau. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ec.nau.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ec.nau.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

ec.nau.edu SEO score

100

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

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